Casual/Tease: Opening weekend
The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War, a nomadic lab developed by Columbia University’s Global Center for Peace Innovation, arrives in Brussels with the exhibition Casual/Tease.
Blame by Shilpa Gupta. Copyright: Fred Dott. Exhibition view from Kunst in der Kunsthalle St.Annen, Lübeck, 2025, courtesy neugerriemschneider.
A quiet view from a window onto a flowering boulevard, a ladder leaning within reach, a handmade ceramic vessel: each work in Casual/Tease first appears as a small, innocent fragment of everyday life, caught in a fleeting moment of ease. Linger a
little longer, however, and that ease begins to fracture. The window view borrows the gaze of a military drone; the ladder becomes the impossible reach for food amid genocide; the delicate vessel reveals the form of a grenade, handmade in wartime Japan. What first appears casual begins to expose the systems beneath it: histories of conquest absorbed into the ordinary, technologies travelling from battlefield to home, pleasures sustained by economies that arm wars elsewhere, and intimate objects through which violence persists long after it has been consigned to the past. Casual/Tease inhabits this uneasy proximity between the casual and the casualty, resisting the transformation of war’s casualties into yet another casual part of our everyday life.
Save the dates of our opening weekend:
- Thursday 10 September 15:00–20:00 – Casual/Tease: Pre-Opening
- Friday 11 September 14:00–20:00 – Casual/Tease: Opening RendezVous Brussels Art Week
- Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September 11:00–18:00 – Special opening hours RendezVous Brussels Art Week
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