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".

    Jacques Charlier

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    image: (c) M HKA, (c) Jacques Charlier, Courtesy Nadja Vilenne
    Paysages professionnels, 1970
    Jacques Charlier
    Photography

    I was working for a public projects office, the Provincial Technical Service in Liège – roads, sewers, waterworks, topography… In this reservoir of things and activities I found a contrarian response to what people were calling “everyday reality” and putting up for exhibition in galleries. I was dealing with everyday documents, which didn’t have the seductiveness of materials from the so-called urban landscape. The coldness of the professional documents was corrosive. As early as 1963 I had the idea of showing these photographic documents with their certificate of origin and purpose, but it was only in 1971 that the work was shown in MTL gallery in Brussels.

    René Denizot, In: Galeries Magazine, Artiste: Jacques Charlier, pp. 91-93

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