8-minute video projection
Juanita Menendez lives in the Marolles neighborhood of Brussels. Every day, for more than forty years, she has frequented the Ursulines square, which is going to be redeveloped soon. Met onsite some weeks before and discontent with decisions that were made without her knowledge, she agrees to submit a project of ideal redevelopment of this place, in the form of a video addressed to the city-planners’ competition.
She physically occupies the space of the square by outlining her project with words and gestures, and although the project’s ambition is not to be materially realized, one feels how much attachment and history is held by this place, so special to her. This video thus appears as a warning in face of the public powers current failure to take into account the different relationships that exist and give meaning to a public space.
Juanita Menendez lives in the Marolles neighborhood of Brussels. Every day, for more than forty years, she has frequented the Ursulines square, which is going to be redeveloped soon. Met onsite some weeks before and discontent with decisions that were made without her knowledge, she agrees to submit a project of ideal redevelopment of this place, in the form of a video addressed to the city-planners’ competition.
She physically occupies the space of the square by outlining her project with words and gestures, and although the project’s ambition is not to be materially realized, one feels how much attachment and history is held by this place, so special to her. This video thus appears as a warning in face of the public powers current failure to take into account the different relationships that exist and give meaning to a public space.