For Centrale | vitrine, Gladys Sauvage is questioning our relation with gesture and with the power to create by proposing a performative and evolving installation. A few streets away from the Grand-Place, the birthplace of lace-making, she creates a bobbin lace within the vitrine, just like Brussels’ lacemakers. https://vimeo.com/1015735305 At the end of the 19th century, lacemakers still played with their bobbins in Brussels' shop windows. The industrial era, followed by automatisation has made this craft almost obsolete. No longer profitable, lacemakers disappeared. Gladys Sauvage builds her lace loom specifically for Centrale | vitrine. Designing and building her work tool is a way for the artist to reappropriate this craft. As an extension of her hands, she becomes one with her lace... Read more