Exposition: Au Foyer des Résistances

A first exhibition on the struggles for the right to housing in Brussels ! In the context of the Housing Action Day - the national demonstration for the right to housing in Belgium - the former café Au Foyer, located in the heart of the Marolles neighbourhood, will be temporarily transformed into an exhibition space on the struggles for the right to housing in Brussels.
With the help of various media – press articles, posters, photographs and excerpts from documentaries - the exhibition will retrace key moments of struggle for housing in the city, from the 1960s up until today, by concentrating on resistances by its inhabitants in the face of rent raises, housing evictions, destructions and expropriations amongst others.
The exhibition aims to make visible the housing struggles that have marked the city, understand their legacy today and consolidate the housing movement in Brussels by bringing forth a shared history. Ultimately its intention is to re-politicize the debate around housing and foreground a collective rather than individual housing responsibility. Archival research is here claimed as an anti-capitalist tool of resistance against the fragmentation of struggles and the erasure of the past.