For this third edition of Festival des Libertés at the Belgian National Theatre, stage design, under the guidance of Béatrice Massinger, is once again playing with the location, while still taking it for what it is, without hiding or distorting it, highlighting its architecture and its lights and inhabiting it with a presence that is practical, welcoming and lively.
At the heart of this staging can be seen the desire to recount itineraries, to create breathing space, to provoke discoveries and surprises for an audience that will accept, on occasion, to be touched, to join in, to stop and to become more than simple passers-by.
To stop. To listen to the echoes, far off or nearby, of other realities, strange or foreign perhaps. To stop here and listen.
To look. Students from the typography shop at La Cambre Visual Arts school have chiselled out the shape, line and colour of words in order to amplify their meaning and help us to see better, or to see in another way, what is said.
These exhibition spaces and sound installations answer each other, dialoguing with Gaël Turine’s photos in order to give each of us the opportunity to experience small bits of something else, on the frontier between knowledge and consciousness, intuition, denunciation, emotion and sometimes the pathetic or the humorous.
A Bruxelles Laïque asbl organisation | Tel: +32 2 289 69 00 | In collaboration with deMens.nu, Théâtre National and the KVS | info@festivaldeslibertes.be
