OFFICE 268

‘Model for a Tower’ shows fragments of Bruegel’s Tower of Babel in the forest environment of Dilbeek, which the artist frequently depicted in his paintings. The circular aluminium structure forms a railing for the curtains onto which the images are printed. The curtains move with the slightest breath of wind and the juxtaposition of the two – the images and the forest – takes the viewer into a space where painting blurs into reality. Surrounded by the woods and colourful details from Bruegel’s painting, one is detached from the urbanised world, absorbed instead into the mise-en-scene for an artificial spatial experience of nature. As Bruegel depicts the ambiguity of our notions of nature and artificiality, with leaves visually mutating into red bricks, the pavilion aims for the same, as a 1:1 scale model of a tower.