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
    Richtingen, 1974
    Philippe Van Snick
    Photography , 8 x 24 cm (58 x 42.5 cm (framed))
    4 zwart-wit foto's op glanzend barietpapier

    "I'm not a photographer taking pictures with expression – in an expressionistic sense. On the one hand it was about the structures that I saw and that I then drew or composed. These structures I wanted to show through photography or to check them out against reality through photography. I used the camera rather as a kind of laboratory.

    On the other hand, [it was] about creating signs, and to check out those signs against reality through photography. Showing (a picture of) those signs. To record that, you take a photograph of that thing."

    Hilde Van Canneyt, Interview met Philippe Van Snick, 2013

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