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".

    ORLAN

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    image: (c) Jurgen Addiers, Collectie M HKA, Antwerpen, Donated by the artist, 2012
    De la mesure à la démesure, 2012
    ORLAN
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    In 2012 M HKA and ORLAN re-enact the MesuRAGE performances, based on documentary and production material stored in the ICC archive, ORLAN not only have creates two new MesuRAGE performances, at the M HKA and the Andy Warhol Foundation in Pittsburgh, she also creates a blow up sculpture of the performance, which took place over a quarter of a century earlier in Liège. In it she combines two images that were crucial to her in Liège, the bulldozer and her own person, reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty. She holds out a bottle filled with the dirt once caked on her white dress.

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