Letters to Heaven 

Letters to Heaven
Spotlight
07-07-2023 al 15-01-2024

Letters to Heaven

Bruxelles
Giardino dei cittadini

We invite you to deposit a "letter to heaven" for the future of Europe in the Citizens' Garden of the European Parliament. 

Letters to Heaven

Bruxelles
Giardino dei cittadini

Letters to Heaven by Alicia Framis

Thanks to the Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, we invite anyone who wishes to deposit a "letter to heaven" for the future of Europe in the Citizens' Garden of the European Parliament. Letters to Heaven is a participatory sculpture made up of a polished stainless steel sphere 200 cm in diameter, which invites those who come near it to a moment of reflection. 


For the artist, looking at the sky is a reflex act, an instant full of hope, desire or despair. Heaven is the place that contains our secrets, our loved ones and the afterlife. The "Letters to Heaven" mailbox has the shape of eternity: a sphere, without corners, without limits. A work that functions as a traditional mailbox where the visitor can deposit in it, if they wish, their "letters to heaven", expressing their most personal desires and concerns and their wishes regarding the future of the European Union. 
This sculpture is related to other works by the author such as the Wall of Wishes or The Keeper of Dreams or Dreamkeeper where Framis offered herself as a caretaker of the nocturnal dreams of those who requested it. 


This work, which is presented for the first time in a public space, belongs to the Art Collection of the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation. "Letters to Heaven" is a project organized on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the result of collaboration between the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, the European Parliament and the Spanish Embassy in Brussels. The sculpture will remain in the Citizens' Garden throughout the semester of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU.

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July and August: September to December: January:
08:00 – 20:50 08:00 – 19:50 08:00 – 17:50
July and August:
08:00 – 20:50
September to December:
08:00 – 19:50
January:
08:00 – 17:50
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Giardino dei cittadini

Rue Vautier / Vautierstraat 62
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgio

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