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.

The Seed, 2014

Ricardo Brey

Object , 24 x 33 x 33 cm (box closed); 24 x 75 x 75 cm (box open)

glass, wood, beat, one leporello book and one notebook

“So, nothing is better than a box to create an enclosed space to control all of these elements. The miracle of life happens within a box. We are boxes that craft life, create life, where we store our vital organs. The box is an archetypal form that any artist feels really comfortable with. I don’t think that only contemporary art has dealt with boxes. From ancient times the box has cast a spell on man. Pandora’s box. The box is always there. It’s in myths in one form or another. We see it in our visions. It’s in our bodies when we speak of the cranium, the most wonderful box in the universe, until we find another species with a better one. It’s there! It also refers to protection, to the womb. I think that contemporary art has taken this to incredible extremes, and there are artists who have used it in all their works, like the minimalists.”

(Fernández, S.S., Que le importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, 2014, p.153.)

Books:

Leporello book: 23 cm (x 11.5 cm) x 220 cm

Notebook: Untitled, 2002, 20 cm x 18.5 cm (20 pages)

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