About

GHOST IN A SHELL
April 18th — April 30th, 2018
The Embassy | Rue Guillaume Stocq 2, 1050
Francis Alÿs, Harold Ancart, Michaël Borremans, Pieter Brueghel, René Magritte and Luc Tuymans.

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,
Now are visions ne’er to vanish;
From thy spirit shall they pass
No more—like dew-drop from the grass.
— Edgar Allan Poe

The show brings together a group of Belgian painters who span across centuries, and create moments of contemplation through their poetic observations of everyday life. Set within the historic hôtel de maître space, the works are contextualized by the …