Once a traveller and messenger of war, trained in military, lordly or abbey dovecotes, the bird has returned to the wild while continuing to live alongside us.
In front of the Place du Marché aux Porcs, the beating heart of the Christmas market, the hard and inert statue of the soldier pigeon stands.

Chloé Schuiten and Clément Thiry occupied this square and this village for four days and four nights. They devoted themselves to the new statue, soaking up the sounds, smells and music of the market, as pigeons would do. Their statue was a big Christmas lantern, soft and mobile, able to migrate. It will be painted and lit from within and at nightfall a sort of coloured stained window will appear.

As a celebration, they invited us on a sound walk, towards a wild area of the city where we feasted on a banquet.

Schedule

Tuesday 13th > Thursday 15th December

1pm to 8pm

Place du Marché aux Porcs

Friday 16th December

1pm to 5pm

Place du Marché au Porcs

5pm to 6:30pm

Migration of the lantern (festive march) to a wild place in Anderlecht

6:30pm

final banquet in the shared garden at the COOP

A project by the Cifas with the complicity of La Bellone, Plaisirs d'hiver, nadine and Boite à Clous.