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".
(c)image: ICC Archive
Location: I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium. 12 May 1980
ORLAN is now known as the first artist who was manipulating her own body as art. In the aftermath of the ICC there was a major exhibition in which she also did one of her 'mesurages', where she measured the spaces with her own body literally and physically as scale.
