Middle Gate

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    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".

    Philippe Van Snick

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    image: (c) M HKA, Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Tatjana Pieters
    Lavabo, 1975
    Philippe Van Snick
    Photography , 18 x 24 cm (30 x 323 cm (framed))
    12 zwart-wit foto's op hoogglanzend barietpapier

    Philippe Van Snick is fascinated by numbers and binary logic. In several works he explores the changing relationships between dots. That way, he arrives at a geometric artistic language.

    For the work Lavabo (sink) Van Snick uses his ten-dot system. He drips ink drops into a water-filled sink.

    Here, Van Snick explores the scientific concept of entropy, i.e. a measure for the disorder or degeneration in a system. The ink droplets expand into the otherwise still water.

    Entropy is also linked to the passage of time and the experience thereof. Van Snick seeks to summarise this in his series. The viewer is thus invited to experience the event's process itself.

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