• Compact Disc (CD)

    Includes digital pre-order of Serrisme. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    digital album releases September 1, 2021
    item ships out on or around August 23, 2021
    edition of 300 

      €13 EUR or more 

     

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    Pre-order of Serrisme. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    releases September 1, 2021

      €10 EUR  or more

     

1.
Lieven Martens "Effets de Serres I"
2.
Lieven Martens "Effets de Serres II"
3.
Lieven Martens "Effets de Serres III"
4.
Lieven Martens "Effets de Serres IV"
5.
Lieven Martens "Effets de Serres V"
6.
Christina Vantzou "Glisten I"
7.
Christina Vantzou "Glisten II"

about

One of the better emails of 2020:
an open invitation from inside the township of Hoeilaart - a small village just below Brussels - if we would be interested to create a document about their historical grape cultivation under glass.

The result:
this unique heritage document. Through photography, text, and sound we log a unique and peculiar culture. Step with us inside the greenhouse, inside the confined world of the greenhouse workers.

Because:
we get imaginative with the real, before we get real with the imaginative.

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Serrism is the cultivation of grapes under glass in Hoeilaart. A culture that has been growing for 150 years, give or take. Its fruit: table grapes, once feasted on in faraway places such as Russia, the British isles and America. This cultured architecture, wealth, beauty contests, fame, a coded row of values per parameter, a people, and a lot of silence.

Serrism happens under glass. Lots of it. In Hoeilaart – the glass village – were once more than 13,000 greenhouses. 13,000 enclosed worlds for the table grape to live, leave and die. Ostinato. Today, only a fraction of these greenhouses are still erect. Under the sympathetic rule of a unique variety: the serrist, world-builder under a glass bell.

This publication is about what it means to listen like glass. To listen to glass. To live as a grape. A matter of selection.

Through
illustration - by Christina Vantzou,
registration - by Lieven Martens,
text - by Jan Matthé,
photography - by Christophe Piette,
and design - by Jeroen Wille.

credits

releases September 1, 2021

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