Continuing an annual routine and in line with their philosophy, BRUT Collective presents a new, shared scenography. This year, however, they chose to provide the various scenographic elements with their own distinct functionality. A decision deliberately shifting the creation of a shared atmosphere towards the formulation of a full-grown collective collection. Drawing from quintessential city elements, the often modular and customisable pieces add up to a synthesis of an urban landscape and challenge the relationships between the public and the domestic.

Encouraged by their numerous possibilities, A City’s Modules became the basis for the creation of A City’s Screen. A system derived from the immanent contrast within an urban context, where some parts of public space are either exposed or (partially) hidden from sight, are at times accessible and at other times closed off. Yet it also meets our valid longing to find separate spaces within the city framework, where privacy or at least silence is available, where we can occasionally isolate ourselves from the constant dynamics that characterize the urban reality. A desire which is inevitably and perhaps equally present in a space which, although private, is shared with different people and their interests.

The modular blocks, which were again meticulously crafted by Antoine Architectural Finishes, primarily form the foundation, the supporting structure for the whole. From there a delicately curved galvanised steel plate emerges which, partly due to its curvature but as much through its relationship with the imitation natural stone, introduces an exciting interplay between lightness and heaviness, between massiveness and elegance.