#1 | Kasper Bosmans
5 December 2018
Rooted in historical research, Kasper Bosmans disentangles the intersection of signs that create cultural meaning in both micro and macro registers. His interdisciplinary works include institutional intervention, installation, sculpture, and painting that parse and restructure the objects and symbols from varied political, artistic, ecological and social orders. Bosmans investigates diverse cultural relics—taken from the realms of government, folk art, and technology—in order to establish new modes of reading the history of power and knowledge that linger in spaces between concept and material.
#2 | Goda Budvytyte & Viktorija Rybakova
6 February 2019
Studio laumes aims to explore the deep web of knowledge and invention, to create a space for mutual learning, education and enable structures for clear ideas. laumes designs, writes, teaches, creates tools for others and with others. Coming from the background of art, design and architecture we are keen to connect our individual voices with the complex making of contemporaneity—be it a book, an exhibition design, a public sculpture or a catwalk. Anything that holds and flows. The essential drive of our poetry is to embrace new realities, economy and ecology of thoughts, things and affects.
#3 | Aline Bouvy
6 March 2019
Aline Bouvy questions through a multidisciplinary approach to issues related to the breadth of society. She claims a certain unknown freedom in relation to the norms that unconsciously model our desires and which dictate to us what is morally and aesthetically acceptable. From this perspective she tries, not to put herself on the fringes of society, but rather to integrate these elements/residues, considered from a moral point of view as “dirty” or aesthetically “ugly”, in her creative process in order to liberate herself from any categorization. Never provoking, she makes it her duty to highlight the crude and outdated side of these waste elements.
#4 | Fiona Mackay
4 April 2019
dreams.
Everyone tells stories. Humanity tells itself stories about itself and its place through
science, history, philosophy etc.. When these stories are completed we can say with some conviction 'these are facts'. But what about the stories we as individuals tell ourselves to interpret our reality and our place? Are these stories completable?
When we examine our private stories do we find facts? Or do Identities emerge by
the recognition of a process which mediates between stories, always fluctuating due to our own fallibility and proximity to the subject?
Emerging from the gaps caused by the conflict between purity of intention and the
impossibility the work to represent fully that which is incomplete, comes a story
which is always tentative, ephemeral and transitive = whimsical. Through obtuse
symbolism, line, lines, repetition, layering; these stories are open yet obscured, and perhaps the more illuminated for that.
Fiona Mackay (b.1984 Aberdeen, Scotland), lives and works in Brussels and Marseille. Recent exhibitions include COMA, Vis, Hamburg, Running Away, New Joerg, Vienna, Tracey X, une une une, Perpignan, FRIDAY NIGHT*, Belsunce Projects, Marseille, and
dreams. Klemm’s, Berlin.
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