Fleeing… through the ages
Exhibition in Messines
An exhibition that set images of and about flight and refugees from the First and Second World Wars against images of refugees from current events. The core of the exhibition was a copy of the large drawing that Frans Masereel made of his flight in June 1940.
A fragment of this large drawing shows us up close how Frans Masereel drew the many refugees on the road.
An overloaded cart, a suitcase, dozens of photographs of people on the road, in '14–'18, in May 1940, in 2004…
Leave that here!
Who is going to carry that?
Now we have to go!
Children were received in a way of their own.
So many people studied Masereel's large drawing of flight in detail and received explanations of the many scenes of flight… through the ages.
As part of this exhibition, lectures were given: Isabelle Vandenbulcke: Réfugiés en Normandie – Piet De Busschere: With nine children to Brittany – Kader Abdolah: Fleeing from Iran – Ludo Vandamme and Marieke Demeester: Fleeing in the 16th century – Marcel Kerff and Diederik Kramers: Fleeing now.
