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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    Eclips, 1996
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Installation , dimensions variable

    "In “Eclips” Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven uses a disturbed fragment from Michelangelo Antonioni’s film-classic “L’eclisse”, in which the actress Monica Vitti turns her back to the camera. The turn is slowed down and digital manipulated by the artist. By augmenting the contrast in the images Van Kerckhoven creates exorcising figures, characterized by her graphic and nervous style.

    Vitti’s opponent in the film, Alain Delon, figures as an almost unrecognizable shadow in a layered editing in which close-ups of a fish are the most impressive image. Now and then, there are some moments of obstruction in which a void occurs. For Van Kerckhoven, images are forces, powers. They exorcise the forces behind the visible, the forces behind the conventions."

    − AMVK

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