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
    Tafel links, 1989
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
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    "Two monitors are placed each at the end of a seven meter long wooden dinner table, that served the banquet business of my family for 50 years. Left you see straight recordings of the sun in windstroken pine trees. The colored oscillation is the result of an automatic, mechanic interference between the sun and the recording equipment. This is altered with a recording of the moon moving towards and from the tower of the church where my parents got married." 

    − AMVK

    Camera and sound: AMVK

    Producer: ICC Antwerp / Club Moral

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