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Photos > Works on show > Ik heb een stuk van het plafond van het koninklijk paleis moeten uitbreken omdat er iets uitgroeide, 2008

Ik heb een stuk van het plafond van het koninklijk paleis moeten uitbreken omdat er iets uitgroeide, 2008

The belly:

I had to break down a part of the ceiling of the Royal Palace because
there was something growing out of it, 2008

Fabre copied a fragment of the permanent installation he made in the Mirror
Room of the Royal Palace in Brussels. For that installation, Fabre covered the ceiling of the room using more than 1,000,000 wings of the jewel beetle.
Before Fabre’s intervention, this room was meant to be decorated in honor of Leopold II and his accomplishments in the old Belgian colony of Congo. In a reaction to this permanent work created in 2001, Fabre “breaks down” a part of the ceiling because something – history, represented by a black (Congolese) man – is growing out of it. He turned this part of the ceiling upside down, creating a monumental 10 × 10 m installation.
 










 
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