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".
image: (c) M HKA, Collectie M HKA, Schenking Vrienden van het M HKA, 2017
Tinka Pittoors uses bright monochrome pedestals of varying sizes to display isolated elements, which could be the remnants, or building blocks, of an imagined existence. She creates a fully contradictory whole out of her mystic grammar of colours, lines and shapes.
