The Fundación María Cristina Masaveu, in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in Brussels and the European Parliament, is exhibiting Letters to Heaven, by Alicia Framis, on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the European Council.
This work, which is being presented for the first time in a public space, belongs to the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection and is a participative sculpture consisting of a polished stainless steel sphere of 200 cm in diameter, which invites those who approach it to a moment of reflection.
Letters to Heaven is a work conceived by Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967) – one of the most important multidisciplinary artists currently active in Spain – as a reflex act of looking at the sky: an instant full of hope, longing or despair. The heavens contain our secrets, our loved ones and future life. The piece serves as a traditional postbox where visitors can deposit, if they wish, their “letters to heaven”, expressing their most personal aspirations and concerns. This sculpture perfectly illustrates the double conceptual and symbolic horizon within which the work of Framis comes together. At the same time, it reveals the artist’s constant striving for the creation of a personal relationship with her spectators, who become accomplices and are invited to express their own ideas. Letters to Heaven arises from an idea of art as a mechanism for social cohesion, for safeguarding ethical values and for strengthening our ties to the people and communities in which we live and have our roots. Art is thus employed to discover new possibilities as a cultural form of healing.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
| LETTERS TO HEAVEN. ALICIA FRAMIS
Jardin des Citoyens, Rue Vautier 68, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium
Organised by: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson and the Spanish Embassy in
Belgium
Institutional curator: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson
Dates: 7 July 2023 to 15 January 2024
Opening hours:
- July and August: 08.00 – 20.50 hrs
- September to December: 08.00 – 19.50 hrsJanuary: 08.00 – 17.50 hrs
