Alfonse, Paul et les Autres

Vivarium, a project by the artist Alfonse, Paul et les Autres at CENTRALE | vitrine (09.12.2021 > 13.03.2022), is a space that confronts commercialstaging and spectacular presentation of nature. The project aims to appeal to passers-by from the street, making the relationship between the window/showcase and the viewer a significant element of the installation. A polite universe of bourgeois decoration will be shaken up by the presence of disproportionate representations of plants drawn on the scale of the space, recreating an artificial jungle. Halfway between girly decoration and prostitutional staging, these elements will contribute to establishing an underlying sexual tension in this “vivarium” crossed by contradictory energies.

Alfonse, Paul et les autres, Vivarium, installation, 2021, Photo © Regular studio

With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Exhibition view: Alfonse, Paul et les autres, CENTRALE | vitrine © Philippe de Gobert, december 2021