Maria Thereza Alves

 
Land
Recipes for Survival
Communal
Destabilizers
Birds
Seeing you
Water
Utopia
We
Borders
Plants
X

‘As a lexicographer, I am always aware that words are the daughters of earth, but objects are the sons of heaven.’ Samuel Johnson

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‘As a lexicographer, I am always aware that words are the daughters of earth, but objects are the sons of heaven.’ Samuel Johnson, 1995

Bricks laid in different bonds

The names and different methods for laying bricks for constructing a wall according to a guide for bricklaying. Due to the tense situation between the Flemish and French communities in Brussels (resulting from the former colonization of Belgium by France), spectators engaged in discussions about whether the English Bond or Flemish might be better.

commissioned work: Boxx, Brussels, Belgium, 1995, curated by Dirk Snauwaert

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