Free open days, exhibition and film “Fritland”!

Free open days! Visit the Micro Fry Museum Brussels at Home Frit’ Home on Saturday 4 July (1:30 PM–6:30 PM) and Sunday 5 July (1:30 PM–6:00 PM). Let yourself be surprised by the tasty stories of fries, illustrated by more than 1,601 objects, documents and creations. The frittery garden is open! Free open days! Visit the Micro Fry Museum Brussels at Home Frit’ Home on Saturday 4 July (1:30 PM–6:30 PM) and Sunday 5 July (1:30 PM–6:00 PM). Let yourself be surprised by the tasty stories of fries, illustrated by more than 1,601 objects, documents and creations. The frittery garden is open! At the heart of the Micro Fry Museum Brussels For the past 15 years in Forest, the Micro Fry Museum Brussels (242 rue des Alliés, 1190) is a passionate, intimate place dedicated to “Fritkot Culture”. Through a unique collection, Home Frit’ Home tells the story of fries, their myths, their frituur owners, and their many nods in humour, art and everyday life. A fries‑themed TV and a frittery micro‑cinema (reportages, short films, etc.) lend a hand to Hugues Henry, friesologist, to draw you into this soft and crispy universe that is so very much our own. Exhibition “Fries and Religion” Programmed for the summer, the exhibition “Fries and Religion” brings together photos and vintage postcards where the fries stall literally clings to the church wall, as if the sacred and the frying smells had decided to share the same parish. You will also encounter contemporary works that take this marriage quite literally: “La première tentation du Christ” (soft pastels; event illustration) by Dominique David, “Les adoratrices ou le feu de joie” (collage) by François Liénard, “Jeanneke Pis et les marchands de bobards” by Jean‑Claude Dubié‑Defossé, and “Friture de la Chapelle” (model) by Yorick Efira, to name but a few. Balancing discreet humour, gentle irreverence and genuine affection for our popular rituals, “Fries and Religion” unfolds an obvious fact we end up no longer seeing: here, meeting at the fritkot is almost a pilgrimage. A cult short film: “Fritland” (1985, Super 8) On the programme, we also present a cult short film: “Fritland” (1985, Super 8) by Yves Warson and Gilles Houben, in its restored version by Peliskan. “Fritland” is a short film in the style of a Belgian road movie, shot on Super 8 over four years, from 1979 to 1982, revealing the behind‑the‑scenes life of nearly 150 fries stands of the time. It observes the codified rituals of frituur owners and their customers. This frittery fresco plunges us into a Belgian folklore whose typical atmospheres, source of a true popular culture phenomenon, were already being described as on the brink of disappearing.