The whole world looks at the cavities in Antwerp walls

Yesterday on international news sites: ‘Belgian artist brings life to outdated foot scrapers’. They look into the hollows of the Antwerp walls all the way across the world, since Elke Lemmens has decorated them with miniature scenes. Flemish figures are suddenly bombarded to world stars.

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It is often something dirty in itself: that narrow, dusty niche in the facade, next to the front door. ‘I sometimes hear something to attach the dog to’, says Elke Lemmens about the ‘foot scrapers’, which …

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