Réalité

String theory, black holes, eleven- and twenty-six-dimensional bosonic worlds, supersymmetry: thanks to science, we can dream of a universe that has become magical again - incompatible realities can coexist. We are excited but frustrated: we cannot imagine what these new possibilities look like. But what if actual magic could help us? Mentalist Kurt Demey and his team take up the challenge. With Réalités (‘Realities’). they offer a unique experience, a poetic and surreal performance. Their latest creation will radically change your perception of other possible worlds. Let's change the universe!

Meeting : The magician and the physicist on 30.11 (all audiences/FR, NL, EN)

There are many artists who feed their creative work with the sciences.

At the Halles de Schaerbeek, several of them are interested in the cutting-edge research carried out in the field of astrophysics. This research has been made accessible and popularised thanks to the books of the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli.

For this meeting, the two researchers Stéphane Detounay (physicist) and Kurt Demey (magician) will share their visions of the arts and sciences, and examine what each field can contribute to the other.

Stéphane Detournay is a research associate at the FNRS and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the International Solvay Institute. His research focuses on high-energy physics and gravitational physics, and more particularly on the quantum aspects of black holes. He is also interested in raising awareness, developing links between the arts and sciences, and organises events in Brussels called Science & Cocktails.

Echoes from the unseen by Fabien Gruau from 15.11 to 01.12

In parallel to Réalités, the artist and photographer Fabien Gruau exhibits his questioning of reality, abstraction, dreams, our perceptions of the world and how we can imagine it differently.

Echoes from the unseen plays with the codes of fiction and reality. Combined, these two elements create improbable links between landscapes and imaginary worlds, echoes of the invisible, hybrid mutations, futuristic chimeras, extra-oridinary epiphenomena, where strange forces are at work.

A poetic journey for a modified contemplation.