Ixelles, where the sky met the street.

In 2019, inside the shell of a former Delhaize supermarket in Ixelles, Brussels, something unprecedented took shape. What had been an ordinary parking space became the first basketball court with a large-scale artwork in the French-speaking part of Belgium — a statement that sport and art belonged together. The design was deeply personal: the signature blue palette and Naruto-inspired clouds embodied the founding spirit of bball in the sky — an invitation to dream, to escape, to look up.

Location: Chaussée de Waterloo, 560 Ixelles  — Belgium

Team: Mehdi Ould Kherroubi Hacine-Bey, PhD (art director, building site coordinator and artisan), Dema (art supevisor), Daouda Kouyate (logistics coordinator and artisan) and Patrick Agostinho (window display artist). Photographers: Mehdibball and Youns.