“I don’t perceive the aim and function of this message”

On the ends of the current Loredana Marchi bridge which connects the Metropolis of Brussels to Molenbeek, two panels with luminous letters scroll by way of phrases. A number of instances in current weeks, some individuals have seen the phrase “scarf” on the Molenbeek facet panel. A phrase that challenged them. “It is an info board. And I do not perceive why the phrase headband is completely indicated there. I have been by way of twice in the previous few weeks and it was the identical phrase every time. It was a hard and fast phrase. There was no sequence. I don’t perceive the aim and function of this message, ”explains the one who questioned us on the topic. “I don’t perceive why the mayor of Molenbeek chooses to place this phrase”, specifies our interlocutor.

The editorial employees of La Capitale visited the location on Wednesday, November 9. On the Metropolis of Brussels facet, the phrase Steppes was indicated, whereas on the Molenbeek facet, the letters modified each second. The phrase “Scarf” was not indicated.

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Info taken, the Loredana Marchi bridge and its infrastructures aren’t managed by the municipality of Molenbeek, which has not acquired any criticism on this topic. However it’s Brussels Mobility, the regional company, which takes care of the administration of this pedestrian bridge. Then again, these two panels are a murals which is managed by Kanal-Centre Pompidou, a museum of contemporary and up to date artwork positioned within the middle of Brussels, close to the Charleroi-Brussels canal, quai des Péniches, within the previous buildings of a Citroën storage.

On the web site of the trendy artwork museum, we study that Kanal-Centre Pompidou was commissioned by Beliris to hold out an inventive intervention on the brand new Loredana Marchi footbridge. “It is the Brussels collective LAb[au]composed of Els Vermang, Manuel Abendroth and Jérôme Decock, which was chosen. Collectively, they query aesthetics and semiotics by way of algorithmic and conceptual pondering whereas enjoying on geometry, colour, gentle and motion,” says the Kanal-Centre Pompidou web site, which was closed on Wednesday.

“For the footbridge that connects the 2 banks of the canal, LAb[au] proposes the Kontexte venture. The self-poetic work Kontexte displays on the spatial dimension of language within the city panorama. Kontexte is a modular venture that consists of a sequence of luminous components that generate phrases because of 16-segment shows. A ‘logbook’ will accumulate the phrases generated from the Dutch, French and German dictionaries”, particulars Kanal-Centre Pompidou regarding the functioning of the work known as Kontexte.