LUMINOUS

(15 May – 4 September 2011)

Creative project 2011

The audience is on show !

Luminous, the RMCA’s fourth creative project, is part of the Fetish Modernity exhibition which is on display until 4 September 2011. The task was to create a standard- or table lamp based around the notion of 'modernity’. Participants had the challenge of combining forms, materials, patterns or ideas which had been borrowed from different cultures or eras.

Of the hundred people who took part, the first ninety managed to secure a place in the museum. They created a dazzling array of lamps using diverse materials such as contact lens cases, cassettes, perfume bottles, windscreen wipers, zips, gas pipes, African sand, a mosquito net, a pig’s bladder, coconut matting and a tortoiseshell.



During the Africa  < > Tervuren day you could vote for your favorite lamp. The winners were announced in the early evening of Sunday 15 May.    

Winners of Luminous

The public chose the following lamps:
1.    'Défense d'y voir’ by Cobowawa (Bodson Aline, Cornelis Marc, Wallemacq Anne, Wallemacq Claire) (n° 33)
2.    ‘Palimpsest’ by Ingrid Ravoet (n° 75)
3.    ‘Argema luminis’ by Mouthuy Pierre-Olivier (n° 74)

The winners chosen by the museum staff are:
1.    ‘Wat jij niet ziet, zie ik (misschien) by Greta Wouters  (n° 35)
2.    ‘Défense d'y voir’ by Cobowawa (Bodson Aline, Cornelis Marc, Wallemacq Anne, Wallemacq Claire)  (n° 33)
3.    ‘Odile croc’ by Jane-Sylvie Van Den Bosch (n° 36)

The creations can be admired via the online photo album.
Click here to see the list of participants (pdf)


Practical information
The temporary exhibition Luminous can be visited between 15 May and 4 September 2011. Access to this exhibition is included in the price of the museum entry ticket.