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".

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

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Stranger in Paradise , 2006

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

Print , 96 x 696 cm

Digital prints mounted on forex

Stranger in Paradise is one of a number of photographic installations Alptekin produced taking the shape of a cloud. The artist assembled the work using hundreds of photos depicting the façades of buildings in Turkey being renovated as well as trucks on the highway taken in Leipzig. The colours and form of the work are in the first instance visually seductive, yet it depicts the manifestations of rapid economic development and modernisation in different societies, and the banality of life for the people caught in the midst of it all.

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