Cendar Brussels: Please, smoke inside

    Invitation by Galerie Zotto, in collaboration with Sam Evers

Medusa was asked to create an ashtray for Galerie Zotto’s debut exhibition ‘Cendar Brussels: Please, smoke inside’. More than 140 artists or collectives were invited — including Naomi Gilon, Audrey Large, Leo Orta and Simon Marsiglia. The exhibition itself was initiated by a smoke-filled happening in which all visitors were free to light their cigarettes inside the walls of KBK Brussels and make use of the abundance of ashtrays. The ashtray which represented Medusa was created by Sam Evers. Her ashtray embodies symmetrical, organic forms derived from art-nouveau sensibilities which permeate the city of Brussels. Covering the 3D-printed sculpture with a plain pseudo-concrete material, her ashtray aims to reach beyond art-nouveau conventions and collapse tradition with contemporary interpretations and 3D-printing production technologies.