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The price is worth it
Acher
Boulevard d'Avroy 28-30
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TO DO
Hilal Aydoğdu
100 Rue Saint-Gilles
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V – 150360/1 p. 204, 265, 266
Dóra Benyó
1 Féronstrée
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Fausse bonne nouvelle
Juan d’Oultremont
31b Rue de la Cathédrale
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Et fouisse toujours on trouvera bien
Gaspard Husson
18 Rue de l'Etuve
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La constellation du navire Argo
Sarah Illouz & Marius Escande
Hôtel de la Cour de Londres 40 Rue Hors-Château
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One Line (… Better Than On – line!)
Marin Kasimir
31a Rue de la Cathédrale
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Cityscape
Sarah Lauwers
29 Rue de l'Université
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Traversées
Alexiane Le Roy
3 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Mécanique d’un mur
Raphaël Maman
9 Passage Lemonnier
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Vapeurs
Eva Mancuso
5 Rue Chéravoie
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Don’t cry over spilllllled tears anymore
Francisca Markus
7 Rue Saint-Remy
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Actions !
Maxence Mathieu
56 Rue Saint-Gilles
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On ne peut rien faire d’autre que tenir debout
Élodie Merland
113 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Travel Local, Buy Local
Oya
107 Féronstrée
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Le vestiaire
Camille Peyré
85 Rue de la Cathédrale
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22 empans et 1 palme
Leïla Pile
75 Rue Hors-Château
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Chronique florale
Ionut Popa
101 Féronstrée
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The Sunken Place
Louise Rauschenbach
4 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Le temps d’une trace / La trace du temps
Florian Schaff Marvyn Brusson
1 Rue Courtois
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Open closet archive 1995/2021/2023/2024
Bo Stokkermans
Passage Lemonnier, 37-39
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Mutations x Urbaines
Adrien Mans Benjamin Ooms
17 Rue des Croisiers
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Je m’organise…
Leen Vandierendonck
159 Féronstrée
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Wer rettet die Welt
Paul Waak
16 Rue du Palais
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Regarde… ce qu’il se passe à côté
Sculpture/Peinture B3 ESA Liège Melissa Andreia Alves ...
137-139 Féronstrée
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Pauvre petit belge qui tremble
Paolo Gasparotto
25 Rue Saint Paul
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Parfums de pauvres
#8
Fabienne Audéoud
Open call
1769 Passage Lemonnier
In 2011, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris where I used to live, I bought some perfumes called Solitude, La Chute (the fall), Querelle (quarrel), Predator in cheap DIY shops. They were the first bottles of the collection “Perfumes For The Poor” that nowadays features a hundred pieces.
None of them are counterfeits, even if some clearly refer to well known bottles and brands. They are exclusively selected for their name and their price (around or under 5€). They are meant to contain nice smells and offer a form a wellbeing and pleasure but the words they display vary from weird to extremely violent: Bishop, British Emotion, Relinquish, Nob-luck, Maniac, Untrue Lies, My Manager, Dispute, Solitude, Tender Stalking, Phobia Men, Dangerous swamp, Expire, etc.
Who came up with such names? Who are they addressed to, if not to poor consumers who don’t really understand what they read, or maybe who are just worth it…
On the shelves of stores and in a further developed way in installations, sentences, a text, a discourse/smell to “wear” are written.
This piece is part of a large series about ‘porter’ translated in English by “to wear” (for clothes and perfumes), to carry a load (porter une charge), to convey a message (porter un message), to bear his name (porter le nom de son père ou de son mari) to perform a character (porter un personnage à la scène ou à l’écran). There is also a French expression saying that a voice carries well.