This piece is installed in the hallway of one of the social housing projects—an open porch that runs across the entire width of the building between the street and the flats. As with most of the Wishful Sculptures, The Refuge of Dreams includes a narrative in text form and a visual element, here, a star motif scattered across the ceiling of the porch. Cécile Pitois uses the “sgraffito” technique that was widely used in Brussels at the beginning of the twentieth century to decorate building facades.

Under this celestial vault where stars of different shapes emerge, we are invited to recall one of our childhood dreams. The artist suggests that it is but a short step from the immensity of the cosmos to the scale of our childhood.