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Chimera

Four contemporary Belgian artists work on the borderline between two worlds, between the known and the unknown, blurring our benchmarks and making the spectator enter into the labyrinth of interpretation. They take the common sense, a shared repository of images and words, pure forms already seen before as starting points, to distort and transform them, make vibrate their forgotten monstrosity and present something stunning, surprising and confusing (“monster” comes from the Latin word “monstrare” which means to present, to show). Acting as editors (in the cinematographic sense) of space and the visible and troublemakers in the field of perception and the sense deriving from it, they draw a veil over the evident and the abstruse, to better explore the limits of certitude, the poetry of discrepancy and the unknown hypothesis.

artistsEva L'Hoest, Djos Janssens, Patrick Everaert, Marcel Berlanger
curatorsMarc Wendelski, Anne-Françoise Lesuisse
placeMeetFactory
tags
castAnne-Françoise Lesuisse
cameraRadim Labuda
soundRadim Labuda
editingRadim Labuda
interviewRadim Labuda
categoryReports
published19. 5. 2015
languageČesky / English
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Václav Magid is an artist, theoretician, curator and, last but not least, a bass player, whose activities often intertwine aspects from these close areas. As an artist on strong theoretical foundations, his curatorial projects are often conceived as an extensive artistic or theoretical project, and in his artistic work, visuality meets music.
As we find ourselves in times that have extensive socio-political implications, the exhibition thematizes the insecurity, the suspicion and post-factuality gradually digging into our lives more and more. The many ambivalent mechanisms trough which we cope with this uncertainty and multiplicity of artistic processes (either politically-critical, or completely non-factual and sensual, scientific or even speculative) of the abandonment of what is considered “real” or “rational” take their forms in the interconnected realms of the technological, the natural, the mystical, the symbolical.