“After les verrotières” assembles photographs of washed-up objects collected by Nicoletta Grillo after high tide on the beaches of Belgium and Northern France. The gesture of collecting resonates with the labor of the verrotières: women of the coastline who made their living by digging lugworms from the tidal beaches of the North Sea, using a small spade to extract the worms from the sand and sell them as fishing bait.

The project stemmed from research carried out on the Wunderkammer of the Musée L in Louvain-la-Neuve. As part of the project, Grillo held a participatory workshop at the museum to assemble an alternative collective cabinet of the sea made of pictures from different sources.

Publication

De Blinkerd
2022

Folded poster, 42x29,7 cm, inkjet print

Workshop

Musée L, Louvain-la-neuve
2022