Val Smets, It Happened Tomorrow
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Luxembourg
Capsules benefits from the generous support of the Ville de Luxembourg. With Capsules, Luxembourg Art Week takes over vacant spaces, showcases, or façades in the city center. Each activated space will be visible from the street 24/7.
"It Happened Tomorrow" is a site-specific installation blending painting, sculptural forms, and natural elements within a showcase during Luxembourg Art Week 2025, as part of the Capsule program. A large-scale image printed on fabric serves as a backdrop: a visual that exceeds its edges and invites the viewer into another dimension. In the foreground, oversized mushroom sculptures seem to emerge from the print itself, questioning conventional perspectives. To ground these surrealistic volumes, Val Smets incorporates fallen branches, collected with the support of Guillaume d’Outremont (GDO Project). Together, these elements create a tension reflecting the fragile balance between our projections and the world around us.
The title, "It Happened Tomorrow," highlights this fluidity in our perception of time, acknowledging that past and future continuously shape the present. This work explores a visual vocabulary shared by Val Smets (born 1991, Luxembourg), combining inspirations ranging from philosophy to sensory perceptions, for an intimate and immersive result.
Good to know
Address: 23, Grand-Rue, L-1661 Luxembourg
Program: Capsule
Artist: Val Smets
Partner: Guillaume d’Outremont (GDO Project)
Event visible 24/7.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
Luxembourg Art Week
Glacis square (Fouerplaatz)
Ville-Haute Luxembourg
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