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".

Ricardo Brey

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(c)photo: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Habana, Havana

Out of Troubles, 2014

Ricardo Brey

Object , 24 x 33 x 33 cm

ceramics, metal, stone, lead, bronce, two leporello books

The pillar and stones hidden in this box were taken from the hotel where Ricardo Brey's grandparents spent their honeymoon. The hotel was situated in the old city centre of Havana. The lizard that adorns the top of the pillar is made from bronze, Brey found it in Vienna.

The Signature of All Things by Jacob Boehm, [1912] .

CHAPTER VI HOW A WATER AND OIL ARE GENERATED, AND OF THE DIFFERENCE OF THE WATER AND OIL, AND OF THE VEGETABLE LIFE AND GROWTH

1. All life, growth, and instigation consist in two things, viz. in the lubet, and then in the desire; the lubet is a free will, and as a nothing in comparison to nature; but the desire is as a hunger: In the desire arises the moving spirit, viz. the natural, and in the lubet the supernatural, which yet is nature's, but not out of its own property, but out of [or from] the property of the desire.

The Signature of All Things by Jacob Boehem, [1912] .

Books:

Mundus subterraneus, 2014, Leporello book: 21 cm (x 21 cm) x 242 cm

Untitled, 2014, Leporello book: 24 cm (x 24 cm x) 484 cm

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