Since 2019 Jozef Wouters has shared his Decoratelier in Brussels with Barry Ahmad Talib, an artist from Conakry (Guinee) who like him suffers from insomnia. From within their sleepless nights, they have conversations made of more than words. An alliance of technicians, musicians, performers and poets forms around them. At night, they gather in Decoratelier to shape a world of fragile structures, built out of light and sound, fuel and time. A shadow atelier, where the table saw is idle and building takes place in hushed tones.

Wouters and his team transport this world to the stage, which becomes both the playing field and the wings. A Day is a Hundred Years is a tool, a planetarium of sorts, that can produce other forms of visibility. It is a theater which trades the central perspective for a multitude of gazes, where the scenography sees us more than we see it.