THE STABLES

Born in 1976 in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.

Bruno Brunet’s work explores the materials of public space, society’s fabric, the codes of conduct taught in respect of them and how inevitably they are broken. 

From the suburbs of Brussels, Brunet often took the earliest trains into the city’s heart as well as the last train out of it. On these trains he often saw young men, teenagers, “tough guys or maybe just bored, lonely guys” vandalizing the train by holding a lighter aflame and melting imprints into the plastic chair covers. Brunet recalls the fumes that would fill the empty cars, but more importantly, the patterns, the “constellations” these outsiders would create. Witnessing these interventions greatly influenced Brunet’s perception of art and who was “allowed” to create it.