Born designers: the inhabitants of Belgium and their whimsical window installations (16 photos)

25 June 2020

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Category: Art and hand-drawn graphics, France, 0+

French photographer Jean-Luc Feixat spent three years admiring how the window sills and windows of houses in Belgium were decorated. And I came to the conclusion that the Belgians are born artists! He collected his photographs in a book called “Strange Things Behind Belgian Windows.” “These windows gave me the opportunity to immerse myself in weird, crazy worlds and better understand the Belgian soul.”

Window installations are a bit like personal museums that display strange and intriguing treasures. So that passersby don't get bored!

Jean-Luc Feixat moved to Brussels in 2013 and over the course of several years he has accumulated enough material to fill an album. And at the same time I learned more about Belgium and its inhabitants: “The Belgians love cats and dogs, have a strange passion for pharaohs, figurines and miniatures of all kinds, and are clearly born artists. Before I started this project, I thought I lived in a cold and the gray country. But the decorated windows gave me the opportunity to enter strange, delirious worlds, and I plunged deeply into the Belgian soul."

“Could these windows be a special form of dialogue? I want to believe that this is so. Only this is not a dialogue on social networks, which everyone has long switched to, but a live conversation on the street, with someone who passes by.”