How do I act? A lecture by Clémentine Deliss

Clémentine Deliss presents the Metabolic Museum-University, a transversal curatorial model for remediating contentious or forgotten collections. She will introduce her forthcoming exhibition the Département des Pièges (Department of Traps), opening in November 2026 at Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, designed as a study space merging museum with university.

The exhibition draws on artifacts from ten Brussels museums alongside artists' prototypes and works by Guillaume Bijl, Kasper Bosmans, Aline Bouvy, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Otobong Nkanga, and others spanning the 17th to 21st centuries. Through the concept of trap and lure, the exhibition explores new relationships between collections that suspend colonial divisions and address contemporary worlds.