COUP DE DÉS
In her exhibition titled “Coup de dés,” Francesca Comune offers a walk-through experience in the form of an installation, constructed as a fictional territory permeable to the unconscious. She explores diverse materials through photographs, sculptures, and assemblages that merge into the architectural interstices and landmarks of the former industrial site of the Tour à Plomb. By observing and analyzing territorial arrangements in Western society, Francesca focuses on remnants and memory, thereby creating new dialogues between these elements.
In this in-situ intervention, she generates a dynamic interaction between surfaces and images, challenging traditional constructions of order and representation. The codes that once conveyed order—inscriptions, letters, and numbers—lose their original meaning, becoming ruins. Francesca integrates them into her artistic language, thus giving rise to a narrative that is both disorienting and liberating, seeking to dismantle and reassemble our understanding of space and meaning.
The installation blurs the boundaries between external landscapes and inner psyche, where forgotten memories and vanished places intertwine. Collective marks from the past become the receptacle of a new game of present memory. The landscape explored by the artist leads each visitor into a shift in perception, where the physical body, moving through these exterior territories, carries its inner world, thus reinventing the architectural experience at the heart of the artist’s work. A “throw of the dice” unique to each individual.
During her residency at the Biennale of Possible Image (BIP), she explored the former library building of Les Chiroux in Liège, which led her to a broader reflection on the concept of space and landscape, as well as their organization. She highlighted images and codes representing order, now in ruins. At the Tour à Plomb, Francesca presents a selection of images created during these three months, as well as extensions of her reflections. She also exhibits photographs taken in the Jardin aux Fleurs neighborhood and on the renovation site of the Horta rooms at Bozar.
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