You will visit Cultures Maison!

(© Elzo Durt)

You will visit Cultures Maison! You will obey! Why? Well, next to the exhibitions devoted to Bries and Loïc Gaume's Ribambelles, here's three other reasons.


We built this city
It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive! No, we’re not talking about Doctor Frankenstein’s latest creation, but about the city, that pulsating fabric that expands between busy arterial roads and high-rises.

Labelle Production, a nine-member Franco-Belgian collective with a penchant for big, bigger, biggest is coming to Cultures Maison to show us the ever-beating and evolving heart of the urban jungle with wall-covering drawings and collages extracted from a small legion of creative brains who are inspired by cities like Lille and Brussels. Terrain vague, only not very vague, but deliciously tangible, with an incredible tonal palette, and ever-changing.
• LABELLE PRODUCTION: 12/9, 18 > 22.00, 13 & 14/9, 13 > 22.00, Maison des Cultures


Going underground
Where exactly he keeps his scalpels, tendon strippers, hammers, spatulas, and forceps is a complete mystery to us. We do know that Elzo Durt sharpens his instrumentarium by dabbling with morbid enthusiasm in the entrails of humanity, which drives itself round the bend to the rhythm of its own pointlessness.

When the psychedelic surgeon tires of stripping off your masks and flaying your icons – how do you mean, anesthesia? – he sometimes occupies himself by recreating his dark day’s work on gloriously composed silk screens, on album covers for Thee Oh Sees, La Femme, and Le Prince Harry, or on posters for Madame Moustache. And he does it all to the background noises of cracking bones and the records released by his own Teenage Menopause label. The waiting room? Ever downwards, into the abyss!
• ELZO DURT: 12/9, 18 > 22.00, 13 & 14/9, 13 > 22.00, 16 > 21/9, 13 > 16.30, Maison des Cultures


Beaucoup fish
What do you mean, rollmops aren’t fish? A rolled up pickled herring fillet? Pure blasphemy. If you don’t believe us, you can find the proof for our bold statement at Cultures Maison, where a whole exhibition is being devoted to Détective Rollmops, sleuth extraordinaire and the central character in the first children’s edition by the artisanal publishing house The Hoochie Coochie from Poitiers.

Détective Rollmops was created entirely in woodcuts by Olivier Philipponneau with texts by Renaud Farace. Both gentlemen are remarkably keen on the borderline experiments of the OuBaPo, the Ouvroir de Bande dessinée Potentielle or “workshop of potential comic book art”, which like its literary equal OuLiPo finds freedom in limitations. Expect experiments with mirrors, accordions, and the world upside down. But before you come to explore this breath-taking work with your progeny: free your mind!
• DETECTIVE ROLLMOPS: 12/9, 18 > 22.00, 13 & 14/9, 13 > 22.00, Maison des Cultures


CULTURES MAISON • 12/9, 18 > 22.00, 13 & 14/9, 13 > 22.00, Huis van Culturen Sint-Gillis/Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles, Belgradostraat 120 rue de Belgrade, Sint-Gillis/Saint-Gilles, www.culturesmaison.be