Faunalia Artificiosa. Views at Wiels, Brussels (2025). Photos: Alhasan Yousef. Courtesy of the artists and Wiels.
The gathering brings together artists, thinkers, dancers, musicians, and chefs in an immersive programme that unfolds throughout WIELS’ architecture. Together, they explore what arises in the aftermath of rupture, the breach of a pact, an agreement unmade: as philosopher Juliana Fausto proposes, ferality is not a return to an origin—the wild—but what emerges after domestication unravels.
The weekend programme reflects on how we adapt, persist, and reimagine life in the wake of broken systems. Like the ancient festivals that once honoured Faunus, this is a space of transformation—where nature, culture, and supernature converge, and boundaries between humans and more-than-humans, the visible and the invisible, begin to blur. It is a feast of remnants and reinvention—an invitation to rehearse new ways of being together.