A break in the Linear
Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat
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.
I met Sirah and Eitan for the first time during the COVID-19 lockdown. As the world shut down, the couple looked for new ways to interact with people and started to produce bread, selling it at cost price to friends from their apartment in Saint-Gilles in Brussels. And so it happened that my partner and I found ourselves talking to them and their kids for a long time through the window of their house. Sirah was very involved in Engagement, the artist-led movement tackling sexual harassment, sexi (…)