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".

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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(c)image: AMVK

Decor voor Ballet in Wit van Marc Vanrunxt: Zwarte zon/Wit vierkant & Witte zon/Zwart vierkant, 1988

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

Installation , 400 x 400 cm, 800 x 400 cm

paint on pvc with iron hinged joints

(Decor for Ballet in White: Black Sun/White Square & White Sun/Black Square)

"These are elements from the sliding decor for Ballet in wit (Ballet in White), choreographer Marc Vanrunxt’s 1988 production in which five dancers perform cosmic rituals. The hand-painted mandalas on PVC express notions such as melancholy, God and time. The alternation between day and night, the subdivision of a day in 24 hours, the duality of dark and light: those were the themes.

I designed the images in the laboratory for Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), with a symbolics-programme on a Lisp machine, the first commercial workstation. I have greatly increased the computer output, which makes the pixelation almost friendly, and then hand-painted it on PVC with screen printing ink.

My work at VUB inspired me to follow an evening course in animated film at the Academy of Merksem, in 1983, which then led to the film De 4 uitersten (The 4 Extremes), based on Marc Vanrunxt’s four short dances."

− AMVK

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