“Rural Postcards” (2022)

- PICKED BY HANNEKE-
February 2022

“Rural Postcards: Productivity and ‘idyll’ in a Belgian prison farm” is on view at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture until 07 March 2022.

The exhibition investigates carceral space as represented and enacted in Penitentiair Landbouwcentrum (PLC) van Ruiselede, one of two surviving and still active prison farms in Belgium. Through a series of visual media, the exhibition observes the clash and coexistence of rural idyll and the modern paradigms of productivity and construction of the human self as factors mediating the relation of carcerality and countryside.

“Rural Postcards” is a project by Sabrina Puddu and photographer Giaime Meloni. It involved the imprisoned people and staff at PLC Ruiselede and benefited from the collaboration of students from KU Leuven’s Master’s of Architecture. The exhibition will feature Giaime Meloni's photographs, a short film edited by Luis Rojo from film collective BRBR, and a selection of drawings and postcards. The graphic project is by Rimasùu Studio .

Check out the project’s Instagram account: @territories_of_incarceration