A Community of Characters
Carlota Bailly-Borg
Each Issue, Jessica Gysel invites an artist to take up space under the title I See / You Mean. A nod to the title of the 1970 collage novel by New York writer Lucy Lippard, an editorial snapshot, a carte blanche with an open ending.
Meeting the Paris-born artist Carlotta Bailly-Borg in her working space in Brussels has to be one of the most enjoyable studio encounters I’ve ever had. Walking through the Park of Laeken on my way to the now defunct American Theatre on an icy day was already a feast, the building itself was icing on the cake. The beautiful theatre, a leftover from the infamous 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, has been abandoned and vandalized during the past decades and now serves as a temporary studio complex f (…)
