Winds Blow Counter

This immersive installation unfolds within and around the artist's rented home - a decaying Art Nouveau house in Brussels once built as a symbol of bourgeois elegance, now inhabited by layers of neglect, memory, and contradiction. Through film, performance, sound, and text, the house becomes both a literal and metaphorical site of haunted architecture and historical residue, where floral-painted walls, collapsing staircases, and unresolved colonial histories take on lives of their own.

Turning her gaze inwards, in Winds Blow Counter, Asma Laajimi reflects intimately on home. identity, and the ways in which the ornamental excess of European aesthetics take on spectral qualities in the present, embodying the residual affects of empire and exclusion. Through autofiction, the artist questions what it means to seek belonging within a toxic refuge, one that both shelters and suffocates.

• Born in 1999, Asma Laajimi is a Tunisian filmmaker and visual artist based in Brussels. Following studies in graphic design and photography, she graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels with an MA in Film. Working across film, photography, installation, performance, and text, Asma’s multidisciplinary practice is rooted in her lived experience, blurring the lines between reality and fiction, the intimate and the political, the personal and the collective. Her work has been showcased at international film festivals including Locarno Film Festival (CH), Cinemed Montpellier (FR), JCC Carthage Film Festival (TN), and Breedbeeld Kortfilm Festival (BE), as well as in art institutions such as KIOSK Gent (BE) and Argos Audiovisual Art Center (BE).