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".

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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

(c)video still: AMVK

The Populace, 2004

Video , 00:06:02

computer animation, sound

"Animation of a drawing of Paris bourgeois interior around 1900. The pieces of furniture reach out for each other like growing plants. The animation evolves like a fungus, in imitation of human thought. The drawing bears a quote from Sigmund Freud’s Civilisation and Its Discontents, 1908, from the chapter titled 'The Cultural Sexual Moral and Modern Nervosity’."

− AMVK

Camera: AMVK

Editing: AMVK

Animation: AMVK

Soundtrack: AMVK

Produced by: Club Moral

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