Huis van Winckel

CC Belgica, Dendermonde

It's Not Fair - Le Monde est Arbitraire. The title refers to accessibility as a double-sided phenomenon (as opposed to the idea of accessibility as the lowest common denominator). This issue is represented through the question of inside and outside. By showing art as a (mild?) derailment of reality, the artists animate and intensify daily environments. They make capricious connections between "here" and "somewhere else" in some cases it becomes a conceptual and/or cerebral evil twin, creating an alienating and elusive form of domesticity.

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curated by Bram Van Damme

An exhibition with new and old work by Freek Wambacq, Jozef Somerlinck, Adam Leech, Michael Van den Abeele, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Richard Artschwager, Neal Beggs, Jean-Philippe Convert, Francois Curlet, Stefaan Dheedene, Michel Francois, Nicolas Gaillardon, Ann Veronica Janssens, Xavier Martin, Benoit Platous, A.R. Penck, Audrey Reynolds, Petr A tembera, Christophe Terlinden, Marijke van Warmerdam, Romy Zaugg, Werner Herzog (curator: Bram Van Damme).

The title It's Not Fair - Le Monde est Arbitraire (It's not fair - the world is arbitrary) is meant as a nonsensical truth: a truth without clear outlines that obtains significance trough its context. In the Huis Van Winckel (the Van Winckel mansion) the title refers to accessibility as a double-sided phenomenon (as opposed to the idea of accessibility as the lowest common denominator). This issue is represented through the question of inside and outside. By showing art as a (mild?) derailment of reality, the artists animate and intensify daily environments. They make capricious connections between 'here' and 'somewhere else' in some cases it becomes a conceptual and/or cerebral evil twin, creating an alienating and elusive form of domesticity.

The title may as well refer to the more unrestrained corners of consciousness: the uncontrolled moments where precision dilutes into absurdity: a liquid dinner party, the undefined end of an evening when some of the guests are drawing circles on the table cloth while others consider whether art is making life more interesting than art. Somebody who's not expected is standing at the door - the guests invite her in, but she replies: I'm not sure if I'm really the one who's out ...

Image: Adam Leech, Silverleaf, still and installation view, 2007

Opening Sun 27/04/08 - 11am

Cultuurcentrum Belgica
Kerkstraat 24, 9200 Dendermonde

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Huis van Winckel
dal 26/4/2008 al 31/5/2008