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".
(c)image: Ulrike Lindmayr
Project-Pleasures are a series of white drawings and texts on black cardboard, with a wink to Jim Dine Painting Pleasures. The Project Pleasures represent small interventions in reality. Bijl sees them as the precursors of his later ‘situation-installations’.
