"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

Jan Fabre

(c)Angelos bvba, Collection M HKA, photo: Lieven Herreman
Burried (Hommage to Pieter Engels), 1979
Performance , 00:30:00

19.10.1979
​Antwerp, Gallery Workshop 77

The invitation to the exhibition states that the guests have to bring an object of personal importance. During the opening the artist collects these objects in preserving jars. At the evening’s end he buries the jars in front of the gallery.