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".
©Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen
In this manuscript Cox speaks positively about surrealism, contextualizing it in terms of the aftermath of WWI as well as in reaction to an unjust and conformist colonial world. Surrealism sought to coherently 'repair' mankind, to provide a joy of experience of the whole. This text appears to be an earlier version of his ‘The Meaning of Surrealism’.
