Festival des Libertés: Isaac Cordal

(© Isaac Cordal)

Tomorrow, the Festival des Libertés is being kicked off at Théâtre National. For ten days it will employ all modes of expression to focus on our rights, liberties, and the dangers threatening them, and it does so through concerts, debates, documentaries, theater, and exhibitions. Including one by Brussels-based Galician street artist Isaac Cordal. His Cement Eclipses, "small interventions in the big city”, are powerful little statuettes in cement that appear on the streets, solo or in groups, and achieve enormous expressive power through their austere, undefined look and their meticulous, meaningful positioning. Recently, his Cement Eclipses turned up in Vienna, but now they can be seen right here in Brussels, and we can't think of a better context to harbour them. “I’m not trying to tell jokes. I’m aiming for a more critical kind of art. For me, street art is a way of combat, a way of expressing my ideas. A sort of activism,” he said hen we spoke to him for our Wunderkammer series. At Théâtre National you can go witness that activism for ten days in a series of installations and pictures he is exhibiting there.

Festival des Libertés
18 > 27/10, Théâtre National & KVS, www.festivaldeslibertes.be