On the first day of Antwerp Art Weekend, for the opening of the Forest Encounters exhibition we welcome you for Where dreams bloom in silence: Future Forests and Tasks of Reverie, performative poetry reading byJelena Vukićević.

Within me, forests grow
that will one day sing
in tongues not yet born.
Silent forests,
cradled in the breath of wind.
The dream of a greenness still to come.
(Where dreams bloom in silence: Future Forests and Tasks of Reverie,  Jelena Vukićević)

A writer, poet, and literary theorist, Jelena Vukićević moves through the quiet confluence of inner stillness, reflective thought, and an imagination attuned to the subtle resistance of language – its quiet refusal to be merely useful. In her writing and workshops, language is not approached as a tool, but as a living, textured medium – an inner terrain where thought and emotion meet, gently woven together in forms that remain open, porous, and quietly unfolding.

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union, Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)