The Grand Opening – Intersections décoloniales is a programme deployed around the Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in the Congo, in the Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels. Audiovisual installations, slam performances, writing and text-arpentage workshops, collective readings and debates question and deconstruct the entrenchment of the heroic fiction of the Belgian colonisers in the Congo, from a decolonial, anti-racist and intersectional stance.

The visual identity borrows from the monument itself. Its stone reliefs, halftoned like an enlarged archive print, are layered over drawings of scaffolding and structures: the image of a construction site that deconstructs. The poster, treated as a pleated veil, evokes the curtain drawn back at an unveiling and lets the monument appear behind it. The title, in white capitals of a classical serif, echoes the gravity of the inscriptions carved in stone, while the palette, reduced to grey and white, remains that of the material.