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".
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Jacqueline Mesmaeker
(c)photo: Galerie Nadja Vilenne
21 mars 1975 17h23, 1975
Jacqueline Mesmaeker’s conceptual work sets a form of visual thinking in motion. For 21 mars 1975 17h23, she asks various people to take a photo of their current location on 21 March at exactly 17:23. By bringing together 36 simultaneous snapshots in a series, Mesmaeker brings about a reversal in the relationship between time and space inherent to photography. Whereas a photographer is normally bound to one place and can shoot a series of images that develop over time, in this way she succeeds in showing a series of places at one single point in time.
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