Middle Gate

    NLEN

    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".

    WAANZIN | MADNESS

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    ©Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community
    Alien, 1998
    Minnette Vári
    Video
    video, monitor

    Using a video camera, Minnette Vári films images she finds striking on television, which she then splices and incorporates in a montage that includes recordings of herself. Her purpose in creating this film is to provide a response to our visual culture, not so much in terms of its proliferation and excess, but first and foremost as a commentary on indoctrination and deception. Some of the film's sounds are from original recordings; however, dialogue from the science fiction film, Alien, has also been incorporated throughout. Her own heartbeat beats in the background, whereby Vári establishes a place uniquely her own in all that takes place.

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