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".

Hugo Roelandt

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(c)Estate Hugo Roelandt

Aigua Bellugada / De vorm van water / The Shape of Water, 1985

Hugo Roelandt

Performance

In collaboration with Marc Holthof, Greet Verlinden, Jan Heremans, Paul Vandenbussche, Johan De Bruyn & Gerd Dillen

• 3–27 April 1986, Aigua I Aigua, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona

• 1986, The Shape of Water, Zwembad en Beeldende Kunst, Belfort, Aalst

• 1–3 juni 1990, Histoire d’eau, Festival ‘t Lichte, Universiteit Tilburg

A version of the Middelheim-project, reduced to 9 windscreen wipers, is placed in a pond, next to a statue by Joan Miro, on a terrace with a panoramic view of the city at the Fundacio Joan Miro in the Montjuic park, Barcelona. The paving stones of the terrace are covered with ‘Aigua Bellugada’: plastic deep freeze bags bought at the department store El Corte Inglés and filled with water reflecting the sunlight. Other versions of this project are the water pyramids constructed in the Gothic cellar of the Belfort of Aalst, and during the festival ‘t Lichte at the University of Tilburg, Holland.

(Abstracts from Hugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky, red. Mark Holthof, Occasional Papers, London, 2016)

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