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".

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    (c)video still: AMVK
    In Dreams, 2002
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Video , 00:06:16
    computer animation

    "Statement: Nowadays the elusive hermeticism of the monochrome comforts only temporarily."

    "The film starts with an image of people judging an art-piece together. There is a wood than, with an abandoned dream house on which the I-person loosens her fantasy. The abstraction through art of two complex stills, expressing the father-daughter-relation, flows into a simple diagram: The Origin of Structure. Therapist fears..."

    − AMVK

     

    Camera: AMVK

    Editing: AMVK

    Animation: AMVK

    Soundtrack: ‘Therapist Fears’ by Club Moral

    Produced by: Club Moral

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