‘Call me gravity’ at Wiels, Brussels: Seven Artists Probe the Physicality of Debt

Key facts

• ‘Call me gravity’ is on view at Wiels in Brussels through 20 September.
• The exhibition features seven artists and occupies one floor of a former brewery.
• Sung Tieu’s ‘Work Contract’ (2025) reprints contracts from German factories that employed Vietnamese workers in the 1980s.
• Georgia Sagri, a founder of Occupy Wall Street, presents inflatable works including ‘Gone, Gone Beyond’ (2025) and ‘Child: 10 Meditations on property’ (2026).
• Dora Budor and Noah Barker’s ‘Orange Film I / Orange Film II’ (2023) was shot through a glass of orange wine near New York’s Highline.
• Budor’s ‘Vintages III’ (2025) incorporates Fresnel lenses and scenes from Marcel L’Herbier’s ‘L’Argent’, made one year before the 1929 financial crash.
• Niloufar Emamifar’s ‘The Wolves’ (2025) was created after asking Puglia’s Department of City Planning who owns the space between two private property lines.
• Curator Pauline Hatzigeorgiou cites French sociologist Marcel Mauss in the exhibition essay, writing: ‘Debt can indeed mean that we have something of the other in us.’