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".

Ricardo Brey

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(c)photo: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

A Dream of Nine Nights, 2014

Ricardo Brey

Object , 23 x 33 x 33 cm (box closed), 25 x 75 x 75 cm (box opened)

metal, golden aged metallic paper, metallic objects, keys, metalic carpenter's ruler, sphere, trumpet, two leporello books and two drawings

And it was in this remainder that God laid out an immense Earth. Since he arranged in it the Throne and what it contains, the Firmament, the Heavens and the Earths, the worlds underground, all the paradises and hells, this means that the whole of our universe is to be found there in that Earth in its entirety, and yet the whole of it together is like a ring lost in one of our deserts in comparison with the immensity of that Earth. And that same Earth has hidden in it so many marvels and strange things that their number cannot be counted and our intelligence remains dazed by them.

Spiritual Body, Celestial Earth by Henry Corbin

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