Black Friday is a Joke

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Time: February 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025
Location: Namur (Belgium)
Event Type: open, call
Organized By: Lau Wilmet
Latest Activity: Nov 18

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MAIL ART CALL – MAIL ART, ART TO RESIST #4

BLACK FRIDAY IS A JOKE

Every year, Black Friday is a time of unbridled consumerism! Thousands of posters and adverts make our neurons flash to encourage us to buy, buy and buy again!

But are we, as consumers, the only ones responsible for this buying frenzy that pushes us towards products whose usefulness often remains to be proven and whose manufacture is, in the vast majority of cases, toxic for the planet? Or should we question the capitalist system, its polluting means of production and its supply-oriented economic policy which, through the factory of consent that is advertising, encourages us to surround ourselves with things that are far from necessary to our everyday life?

We invite you to use your creativity to think about these questions and come back to us with an artistic response! An answer that will, of course, travel by post!

Mail art, as simple as a letter in the post !

Take up the theme, transmute it through the alchemical process that is your creativity and illustrate it (free technique : drawing, painting, collage, silk-screen printing, calligraphy, embroidery, etc.).
Send us an e-mail with your contact details (last name, first name, postal address and e-mail) to confirm your participation : laurent.wilmet@afico.be
Send the postcard or envelope before September 30 2025 to : AFICo asbl, rue Saint Nicolas 84, B‑5000 Namur, Belgium

Maximum submissions : 2 // Required dimensions : 10x15 cm (4x6 inch)

An exhibition will be held in Namur (Belgium) in late 2025.

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Comment by Lau Wilmet on November 18, 2025 at 1:11am: Chères et chers Artistes,

La première exposition « Black Friday is a Joke” est actuellement en préparation. Je suis heureux de vous informer qu’elle aura lieu du 20 au 22 novembre 2025 au Centre Culturel de Namur (Anciens Abattoirs de Bomel, Trav. des Muses 18, 5000 Namur). Pour plus d’informations, suivez ce lien : https://www.tccnamur.be/programme/a_2581-exposition-black-friday-is...

N’hésitez pas à m’y rejoindre le 22/11 dès 14h00, pour un atelier d’Art postal au cœur de l’exposition ! Un catalogue sera finalisé pour cet atelier. Vous le recevrez prochainement par e-mail au format PDF.

Je profite de ce message pour vous annoncer que je suis actuellement à la recherche d’un nouveau lieu d’exposition pour 2026 afin de présenter plus longuement au public namurois les œuvres que vous avez envoyées.

Merci pour vos créations.

À bientôt par voie postale.

Lau

Dear Artists,

The first exhibition ‘Black Friday is a Joke’ is currently in preparation. I am pleased to inform you that it will take place from 20 to 22 November 2025 at the Namur Cultural Centre (Anciens Abattoirs de Bomel, Trav. des Muses 18, 5000 Namur). For more information, follow this link: https://www.tccnamur.be/programme/a_2581-exposition-black-friday-is...

Feel free to join me there on 22/11 from 2 p.m. for a mail art workshop at the heart of the exhibition! A catalogue will be finalized for this workshop. You will receive it shortly by e-mail in PDF format.

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am currently looking for a new exhibition venue for 2026 so that I can present to the Namur public the works you have sent for a longer period.

Thank you for your creations.

See you soon by post.

Lau

Comment by Zorica Obradović on March 11, 2025 at 7:12pm: Hello from Serbia!

I sent mail art ...

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