Annie Gentils Gallery

During Antwerp Art Weekend we organise a concert with Giovanni Barcella and his music group on the 19 th May around 3PM. We welcome you.

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Exhibition extended until June 17th 2023

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LIMBO

 

‘Limbo’ entitles a new room-filling installation for the ground floor of Annie Gentils Gallery.

Limbo can refer to a dance or game where participants try to pass under a horizontal bar without touching it. The bar is gradually lowered after each round, making it increasingly difficult to pass under without falling or touching the bar.

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This exhibition will further testify to a shift within the artist’s attention: from objects, installations and video works with modernist, conceptual overtones to a more concrete 'ontology' of objects and instruments relating to the active body. And paradoxically, biographical, anecdotal footnotes - on Africa, the sea, rhythm, family, engagement, and disappearance - work their way up.

Dheedene’s works are not material ideals as such, but rather the expression of an end.

The search-modus is abolished. What is found here was not to be searched for, is not an invention nor a discovery, but a finding, re-organized and displayed.

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This exhibition is (like most exhibitions) about waiting, waiting for something that could never happen. It’s keeping things in a state we might call desire, simply keeping it there, that yearning, that uncertainty, keeping things poised in just that place.

 

Each exhibition is a limbo, a tangible proposal to arrive at a highly charged and ambivalent mood.

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