Annie Gentils Gallery

UPCOMING EXHIBITION:  UNI
As part of Antwerp Pride (Together), we are opening UNI, a group exhibition exploring diversity, inclusion and connection 
 

opens on Saturday 1 Augus at 3PM.

Arocha / Schraenen - Kasper Bosmans – Jack Davey - Messieurs Delmotte - Marijke De Roover – Emeline Descreaux  - Chris Gillis -  Yann Freichels - Paul Armand Gette (1927 - 2024) – Hantrax doll solutions  - Sina Hensel  - Philip Huyghe – Juliet Jespers  - Clara Lissens - Rufus Michielsen - Ria Pacquée  - Jonathan Paepens - Veronika Pot  - Marc Rossignol (1954 - 2025)  - Lieven Segers & Johanna Trudzinsky – Jesse Siegel - Luc Tuymans - Sietske Van Aerde  - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven  - Stef Van Looveren  - Vanessa Van Obberghen- Tom Volkaert - Andrew Webb (1966 - 2019)

CURRENT: STEFAAN DHEEDENE - VERY VERY HUSH HUSH
EXTENDED THROUGH 12 JULY - FINISSAGE AT 3 PM

Stefaan Dheedene worked on a new installation that occupies all of the gallery's exhibition spaces.

This installation started initially as a soundwork. It is composed of extracts from a BBC radioshow 'Business english on the subject of crisis handling. The extracts are re-edited into a radio play in which we hear a meeting of corporate associates discussing a crisis at hand. The subjects in this radio play are trying to take control over this crisis. They discuss how to avoid a labor strike, restore the pace of operations and how to deal with potential bad press coverage. They talk in catchy phrases and use effective language but there is no real communication or interaction between the subjects. The conversation doesn't lead to an end or a solution but activates the construction of persuasive slogans.

This installation culminates in a proposal in which the artist, using paradoxical, biographical and anecdotal footnotes, clever puns and verbal torture, shifts the focus to a more concrete “ontology” of tangible objects and instruments.