Thomas Van Den DriesscheBelgian documentary photographer
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 1 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Open Head & Fragmented Memories

Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, 2015–2016 · 39 photographs

Inside Denis Meyers' monumental typographic fresco covering the abandoned Solvay building in Brussels before its demolition.

Imagine you could literally get into someone’s head... An artist’s head at a turning point in his career and his personal life ... You walk among fragments of his past, you decrypt on the walls of his skull ideas, fears, regrets, desires, hopes ... And then, dozens of faces start to appear, then hundreds, as if printed in layers on Denis Meyers’ retinas... And thousands of words which collide and interweave ...

Denis is a typographer and urban artist. Since the beginning of his career he has written and drawn the important and trivial moments of his life in a huge number of notebooks. On a whim, he started this huge project in 2015... A kind of exhausting and life-saving therapy that has led him to reproduce the pages of his notebooks over 20,000 km2 of an abandoned building in the heart of Brussels over many months. "Remember Souvenir" is a pharaonic art project, which is intended to be ephemeral. Just a few days after the last word will be tagged on a decrepit wall of this building, the whole complex will be destroyed.

Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 2 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 3 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 4 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 5 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 6 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 7 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 8 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 9 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 10 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 11 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 12 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 13 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 14 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 15 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 16 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 17 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 18 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 19 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 20 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 21 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 22 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 23 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 24 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 25 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 26 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 27 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 28 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 29 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 30 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 31 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 32 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 33 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 34 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 35 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 36 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 37 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 38 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Open Head & Fragmented Memories, Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Photograph 39 of 39 by Thomas Van Den Driessche
Personal Works / Open Head & Fragmented Memories — Building Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, 2015–2016
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