LE CITTA' OSCURE - BRUSEL

Visionary and apocalyptic, Schuiten and Peeters open the doors to their nightmares by inventing cities that are in every way like ours... but unsettling, irrational, dark. In a word: dark. The dark cities are a warning for all of us. A knot to tie in the handkerchief. To remind us that we must respect the places where we live. Disturbing and offending them upsets a balance that is first and foremost that of our own lives. Brüsel is one of these dark cities. It looks like Brussels but it is not. It is its double deformed by a mirror that attracts us and makes us plunge into it. Reality is within reach: in his long and detailed introduction, Peeters explains how Brussels has lost itself and created its dark double. The emptying of the Seine, the creation of an urban railway network as cumbersome as it is useless, the systematic destruction of the architectural and monumental memory of its historic center in the name of modernity... From all this, Brüsel is born, a devastated city that deserves to be erased by a cataclysm along with its inhabitants.