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)image: M HKA
    Flash Back/ Yéyé /Locus Solis, 2013
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Film

    Through this animation Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is trying to recreate the atmosphere at the beginning of the Sixties as she felt as a teenager. An atmosphere that is self-described as a dark period that was suffering under the strain of eroticism and violence. She does this by sampling images which we can see from the clip Chez Les YeYe (1962) by Serge Gainsbourg, and the house interior that the modernist architect Marcel Breuer built for himself in the U.S. When the Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg is using American influences in the tradition of the "chanson" the Hungarian Marcel Breuer brings a European aesthetic to America.

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