Victor’s Traces by K-Dix80 (Sonia Aniceto)

As part of the Art Nouveau Year 2023 supported by the Brussels Government and managed by Urban, under the general coordination of Commissioner Paul Dujardin, a work was commissioned from our collective K-Dix80 following our project to revalorize the tomb created by Victor Horta in 1896 at the Molenbeek cemetery.

We have installed “deconstructive” signage, made up of several interventions, to be discovered at the cemetery from April 24.04, 2024. We present in the exhibition works designed from elements that are not or no longer visible at the cemetery.

The best example is provided by the barrier built by Horta around the tomb, but since lost and of which no representation seems available. K-Dix80 wanted to recreate the barrier by drawing on the contemporary collective imagination, and to do this he tasked artificial intelligence software with reconstituting it. Its numerous proposals, unexpected to say the least, are revealed, while the shadow of one of these virtual barriers is painted on the floor and on the wall.

Other elements evoke the negative of the intervention in the public space, such as the original paving stones replaced by those sculpted by K-Dix80 or the falls of the corten steel plates which take up the decorative elements sculpted by Horta on the tomb of the Cressonnières family.

Emphasis is also placed on the context of the tomb, neighboring more modest buildings, destined to disappear, like those they sheltered. Various photographic approaches pay homage to these shadowy people.