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".

Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков

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Архітектурні вимірювання / Architectural Measurements, 2022

Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков

Video

Bratkov films his brother, a 75 year old architect living in the east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, while he is measuring rooms and counting windows in a dilapidated children’s hospital, as if to reflect on its possible renovation. The video concludes with the harsh fact that at the moment the video was finalised his brother was counting bombs.

Sergey Bratkov, statement:

“I hate the war and those who unleashed it.
I wrote that in another film work about my brother living in Kharkiv, in the same series as the work presented here.
The film with that statement was made at the very beginning of the war and shown on Austrian television.”

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