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
    Interieurtekeningen, Manasota Key Road, Florida, Februari 2013, 2013
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Drawing
    serie of 7 drawings

    7 drawings made in the “Hermitage”, artist residency in Florida, Sarasota, at 20 meter from the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico.

    "The vintage fisherman house serving as the main building, is completely constructed out of wood. This wooden inner structure is very present and the interplay with the contemporary bourgeois furniture quotes, dominant. On the spot I was reading the book 'Rhythmanalysis, Space, Time and everyday Life' (1992) van Henri Lefebvre and at a given moment I started drawing fragments of the house. Hereafter I added to each drawing a reflection out of Lefebvres book, from its first chapter: 'The Critique of The Thing'."  — AMVK

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