Elias Cafmeyer\u2019s artistic practice stems from his fascination with urban development. His site-specific installations often result in tragicomic illusions that question the use and representation of public space. For Centrale | vitrine, Elias Cafmeyer delves into the history of the urban development of the Sainte-Catherine area and its church. The current Sainte-Catherine church is a second version built between 1854 and 1874 on the site of a basin in the former port of Brussels. The original church was part of the fa\u00e7ade of the rue Sainte-Catherine, where the Centrale is located today. Elias Cafmeyer reintroduces a fragment of the old church trapped inside Centrale. As with facadism, an urban planning practice used in the area, only the fa\u00e7ade has been preserved. The old church re-emerges, while revealing the white spaces of the art centre. Reduced to a two-dimensional decoration, the fa\u00e7ade is the only vestige of a building emptied of its substance in favour of a new construction. By reproducing a historical element inaccurately, Cafmeyer temporarily adds another historical artefact to the district. He creates a new tourist attraction alongside the Tour Noire and La Bellone. With this gesture, Cafmeyer raises traces of urban development in the Sainte-Catherine district. He addresses the process of Disneyfication that is transforming urban planning and local culture to meet the expectations of tourism.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[6,32],"class_list":["post-2646","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-art-contemporain","category-exposition"],"acf":{"image_dapercu":2811,"img_a_la_une":2811,"client":[289],"date_cpi":null,"date_debut":"20251029","date_fin":"20251207","event_localite_liaison":[1184],"active":true,"active_pressroom":true,"active_agenda":true,"dossier_presse_fr":2643,"dossier_presse_nl":2644,"dossier_presse_en":2645,"fichiers_supp":null,"images_gallerie":[3005,3009,3007,3006,3008,2649,2647,2650,2648,2651]},"yoast_head":"