"With her solo show The Love Hotel, Elen Braga refers to the oldest rendezvous hotel in Brussels around the corner from Wouters Gallery, but also to the way in which we experience love and our family life at a time when the world is on fire. “A tapestry depicts the world outside, where police, war and chaos flourish. The conversation on a blanket, about our dreams about war for example or a dinner with an emoji, makes the audience reflect in a light-hearted way on the sometimes absurd reality in which we live, and how the private and public space continuously feed each other”, says Braga. “In addition to the hotel room, I created a Belgian brown café, with typical elements such as sanseverias, beers, bitterballen and fries. Life-size replicas of myself and my partner sit at the table. When we first met, we had hours of conversations about creativity, the ideal world or love. Here too I mix the outside world, through a projection in the window, with the intimate private atmosphere.” (Excerpt of text by Elien Haentjens for COLLECT Magazine)