Middle Gate

The exhibition project Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna is a collaboration between M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the cultural centre de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is the follow up to the exhibition Middle Gate, curated by Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. The exhibition concept is closely tied to the legend of the holy Dymphna, saint of the possessed, the mentally ill and patroness against epilepsy and insanity. The legend of Dymphna shares a strong connection to the identity of Geel, "the charitable city".

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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(c)image: AMVK

Urewut, 2007

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

Book , 14.5 x 20 cm

Paper, ink

Urewut, a mystic all-devouring rage.

"These images counter bottomless depths of alienation and unreality. In 2002, in the middle of summer, I took a series of photographs in a sunny French seaside resort at the Atlantic. The loud and outraged beach fun passed me by completely since I was there all by myself, just passing through. I added pictorial elements to 5 of the photographs, did this in a rage of anger and frustration in December 2005, at home, sitting in front of the TV, shortly after I took a look at the most recent overview of contemporary Flemish painting. Then some scraps of text ended up on each of the images: sex-related reflections I wrote years ago. Living and suffering create a contradictory set of images that in its course is trying to iron out a vital problem of an unextinguished yearning for love."

— Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

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