Women will be honoured on the STIB network to mark International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, announced Brussels Mobility on Thursday.
From this Friday, the Porte de Namur metro station will host the Chromium City exhibition by Brussels artist Naomi Waku.
For a year, the station’s new billboards will display ten portraits imagined by the makeup artist and captured by photographer Simon Loiseau.
The photos "capture a fragment of urban life at the Porte de Namur. Each face, adorned with bright colours, hovers between reality and fiction, transforming the ordinariness of daily life into a dreamlike scene."
The exhibition offers a new perspective on the presence of Brussels residents in public spaces.
Brussels Mobility aims to increase the visibility of female artists in the city’s transport network.
"The time when women seemed invisible in public spaces is over for good," said Brussels Mobility Minister Elke Van den Brandt (Groen).
