Belgium
EUtopia
Belgium
EUtopia
Thomas More's Utopia was first published in the Belgian city of Leuven, along with a map of the fictional island in the shape of a human skull. Belgium's design team reconsidered these utopian roots in light of the Belgium of 500 years later; Brussels is Europe's capital but, with Brexit, the 50-year dream of a united Europe is fast unravelling. The artist van Innis, whose murals in Maalbeek subway station, just 600m from the EU parliament, were destroyed in last year's terrorist attack, considered this uncertain future in a new map of EUtopia.
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Photography: Ed Reeve
DAMnation
Benoît van Innis
Curators: DAMNº magazine: Siegrid Demyttenaere, Walter Bettens