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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    (c)image: M HKA
    La Zone Absolue/Canalisation, 1969
    Jacques Charlier
    Video , 00:13:45
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    This fluxus related - video gives an image of a hole that is dug in the ground. By this action Jacques Charlier (defender of the ‘Belgitude’) articulates a comment on art to find the dream, an attitude of art. He is irreverent but radical related to the tradition of art and beliefs that everything is art and uses often unimportant forms of the art – system like parody and persiflage, a valorization of the art-world as in technical services, even the ground work of laying pipes and drainages referred to this.

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