Zazah G. Van den Broeck
dal 15/3/2006 al 21/4/2006
Segnalato da
15/3/2006
Zazah G. Van den Broeck
Dagmar De Pooter Gallery, Antwerp
Memories and the Heart. In her work, the artist interprets and articulates the effect of its pulsating movement as 'movedness'. The fact that on the one hand, the heart is moved, is pulsated; on the other, that it also moves, moves us.
Memories and the Heart
Today Modernism's mechanistic view of the human body still provides the basis
for Western medicine. Ultimately, we are looked upon as, albeit infinitely
complicated, machines: a conglomeration of different parts, the purpose of
each being clearly, and often exclusively, determined. One of our 'components'
is the heart. Its function as pump remains uncontested throughout much of the
Western world. But the heart is much more.
In this exhibition Zazah G.Van den Broeck gives expression to this 'much
more'. She does not challenge, oppose, counter or try to convince in a
rational or argumentative way; but, instead adds, broadens and opens -perhaps
even positively complicates- the, sometimes over-simplistic, clinical account
of this vital organ. In her work, she interprets and articulates the effect of
its pulsating movement (at once an aimless back-and-forth and an endless
repetition), as 'movedness'. The fact that on the one hand, the heart is
moved, is pulsated; on the other, that it also moves, moves us. It is as
emotionally affected as affecting.
Since it is, thus, a guiding force (not
just of our bodies, but also of our life in general), it is an intelligence, a
centre of energy, information and memory. But all of these are uncoded and
raw: without currency or exchange value. In Eastern traditions the heart has
consciousness; how we feel in our hearts is an ontological matter. Zazah's own
heart beats in and through each of these works.
Due to the fact that they are
unmediated, raw personal expressions of emotional states and of deep memories,
they reach beyond the personal into the over- or prepersonal and affect the
sensitivised viewer. As each work beats and moves at a different rhythm, each
viewer is moved differently. However, we need to open our hearts as much as
our eyes. As Antoine de Saint-Exupery already said, "It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly: what is essential remains invisible to the eye".
Text: David ULRICHS.
Dagmar De Pooter Gallery
Graaf Van Hoornestraat 6 - Antwerp