{"id":13786,"date":"2019-04-05T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/debout-be-du-street-art-en-memoire-des-victimes-du-genocide-au-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:01:27","slug":"stand-up-be-street-art-in-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-genocide-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/debout-be-du-street-art-en-memoire-des-victimes-du-genocide-au-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Debout.Be, street art in memory of the victims of the genocide in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJGypy4hzlw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_13784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13784\" style=\"width: 1126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13784\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Stand up_Bruce-Clarke\" title=\"Stand up_Bruce-Clarke\" align=\"insert|right|taille=grand\" width=\"1126\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-jpg.webp 1126w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stand up_Bruce-Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uprightmen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Men on their feet<\/strong><\/a> is a contemporary art project conceived by the visual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruce-clarke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Bruce Clarke<\/strong><\/a> in memory of the victims of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The project aims to paint larger-than-life figures of men, women and children - up to 10 metres high - at places of remembrance and elsewhere. These figures will appear to passers-by as silent but embodied images, silhouettes sketched but assertive, anonymous but familiar characters, symbols of the dignity of human beings confronted with the dehumanisation implied by the genocide. The intention is to give a presence back to the disappeared and to restore the individuality of the victims. <\/p>\n<p>Wall art has the advantage of being accessible to everyone. Its purpose is to provoke questions in the viewer, not to answer them. This astonishing ability of the work of art to question the viewer is perhaps the best remedy against amnesia. Artistic representations are as much a weapon against forgetting as they are an echo of the battle itself. Works of art, whatever their nature or period, help to build memory, sometimes to the point of being the sole marker of an event years later.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13785\" style=\"width: 1126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13785\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Stand up.be_Bruce-Clarke2\" title=\"Stand up.be_Bruce-Clarke2\" align=\"insert|right|taille=grand\" width=\"1126\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-jpg.webp 1126w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stand up.be_Bruce-Clarke2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<h3>Presentation of the project sponsors<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muyira.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Muyira - Arts and Memory<\/strong><\/a> is a Belgian non-profit organisation whose activities focus on two main areas. The first concerns the memory of the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Muyira offers a range of educational approaches using artistic expression as a means of transmitting and reflecting on these crimes. The association extends its activities to the fight against all forms of racism, xenophobia, sexism and homophobia. The second focus of the association's activities is artistic creation and dissemination in various forms.<\/p>\n<p>Born in London in 1959 to South African activists exiled in 1958, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruce-clarke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Bruce Clarke<\/strong><\/a> studied Fine Art at Leeds University in the UK before moving to Paris in the late 1980s. He fights apartheid with his art and his brushes. He took part in the \"Art Against Apartheid\" exhibition, alongside artists such as Herv\u00e9 Di Rosa and Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Like Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Bruce Clarke is a militant and committed artist who never ceases to question the social role of art and its political implications.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h3>Credits<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A project to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muyira.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Muyira - Arts and Memory<\/strong><\/a> in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/parcoursstreetart.brussels\/oeuvres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Street Art COURSE<\/strong><\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruxelles.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>City of Brussels<\/strong><\/a> with the support of<a href=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/\"><strong>Africalia<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federation-wallonie-bruxelles.be\/?promotion-de-bruxelles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Promotion of Brussels within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation<\/strong><\/a>. Special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tollens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Tollens<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This project is one of the winners of the<a href=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/call-for-proposals-to-co-create-global-citizenship-education-tools\/\"><strong>call for proposals 2018<\/strong><\/a> of Africalia.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13786 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-jpg.webp'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be13-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stand up_Bruce-Clarke\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13787\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13787'>\n\t\t\t\tStand up_Bruce-Clarke\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-jpg.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/africalia.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/debout.be14-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stand up.be_Bruce-Clarke2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13788\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13788'>\n\t\t\t\tStand up.be_Bruce-Clarke2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stand Up.Be<\/strong> is a project supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muyira.be\/\"><strong>Muyira - Arts and Memory<\/strong><\/a> based on the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LesHommesDebout\/\"><strong>Men standing<\/strong><\/a> of the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruce-clarke.com\/\"><strong>Bruce Clarke<\/strong><\/a>. Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, this work aims to perpetuate the memory of the victims. The project consists of permanently painting a standing man figure on a Brussels facade.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is on display at 34-36 rue du Meiboom in 1000 Brussels and is integrated into the <a href=\"https:\/\/parcoursstreetart.brussels\/oeuvres\"><strong>Street Art COURSE<\/strong><\/a> of the City of Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration of the Brussels painting took place on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 2 p.m., in the presence of Ms. Delphine Houba, Alderwoman for Culture of the City of Brussels; H.E. Amandin Rugira, Ambassador of Rwanda to Belgium; Mr. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jacquemin, Director of Africalia as well as the artist Bruce Clarke.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,1033],"tags":[1061,1120,1067,1129],"pays":[1066],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-agenda","category-rwanda","tag-accueil-haut","tag-appel","tag-ecms","tag-street-art","pays-belgique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africalia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}