THERE IS A CRACK IN EVERYTHING — Focus on
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Suspended on the façade of the Jewish Museum of Belgium, Adrien Vescovi’s monumental installation is made of textiles he describes as “battered.” Hand-dyed with natural pigments and exposed for months to sun, rain, wind or partial immersion, the fabrics bear the visible traces of their own history: oxidation, tears, fading. In Brussels, the artist engages in an act of care—stitching, mending, reassembling—repairing these fragments as one might tend to an injured body. The work becomes a threshold between public space and museum, past and possibility, individual care and collective memory. It invites viewers to slow down, observe, and reflect. The result is a fragile yet resilient piece, where brightness emerges from what was damaged, and repair becomes a poetic and political gesture.
Born in 1981 in Thonon-les-Bains, Adrien Vescovi lives and works in Marseille. For over fifteen years, he has developed an eco-sensitive practice grounded in slow temporalities, artisanal techniques, and close attention to natural resources. Each work is the result of meticulous plant-based dyeing, reuse, and transformation, driven by reflections on material memory, the transmission of knowledge, and poetic ways of inhabiting the world. For Vescovi, textiles are forms in constant recomposition—metaphors for the living, for its fragility, and its strength.
Exhibition “There is a Crack in Everything” on view from 5 September to 14 December 2025. Tickets in bio.
📸: Adrien Vescovi, Untitled (Minimes), 2018–2025. © Isabelle Arthuis
With the support of Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France in Madrid, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, COCOF and National Lottery.