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".

Michèle Matyn

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(c)image: M HKA

Dropstein #2, #5, #7, #8, #4, #1, 2014

Michèle Matyn

Photography , 155 x 155 cm

digital print on baryt

The cluster of works titled Dropstein (derived from the German: Tropfsteinhöhle) developed out of a journey to the stairs of the Bronze Age city of Mycenae in Greece. It comprises a series of photos and a performance, based on stalactite forms inside caves. The work symbolises the idea that you become what you experience, like the way stalactites gradually grow through the flow of mineral deposits in water that build on top of the old ones. The stalactite images resemble stairs and passageways leading into the depths of caves. They were subsequently used in the Dropstein performance, for which the images were turned into a costume.

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