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BOOOOOOOM – “Revenants” Featuring Artists Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva

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Post date 03/02/2023

Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick SIlva

BOOOOOOOM

at Rectangle, Brussels

A new exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kelly Richardson, Franco-Canadian artist Nicolas Sassoon and Brazilian-American artist Rick Silva. Curated by Brussels-based art space Rectangle, “Revenants” plays with ideas of scale and time as it relates to human perception and our place on this planet. Sassoon’s ongoing sculpture series, “Prophets,” combines volcanic rock with LCD panels featuring pixelated animations reminiscent of flowing lava. Recalling traditional viewing stones, from which electronic hardware and screens emerge to form heads and figures, the sculptures recount a partial history of our relationship with matter and reminds us, not just of how the very ground beneath our feet was formed, but where the same minerals that enable our digital lives originate. Sassoon and Silva’s collaborative project similarly speaks to the connections between organic and inorganic materials as they share a common interest in depictions of wilderness and natural forms through computer imaging. “CORES” is made up of high-resolution 3D renderings of geological specimens altered by unnatural substances and enigmatic structures.

On the other end of the planetary spectrum, Richardson takes us into the asteroid belt of our solar system. Continuing ideas explored in “Pillars of Dawn” where extinct species in a seemingly post-human world have taken the form of crystals, “Origin Stories” reveals the majesty and infinite wealth of our home within the context of the universe. However intensely inward (historical / geological) or outward (celestial / futuristic) these artists may be looking, all the pieces in “Revenants” seem to come back to the same thing — what role or responsibility we still have yet to play. As Alexandra Crouwers states in her essay on the show:

“When we return to the human power of one, we’re left with the realisation that while our species’ behaviour is responsible for the current global extinction event, it’s equally capable of producing uniquely imaginative visions. Art alone can’t save the world but the creation of art may very well be considered as the yin to our destructive yang.”

Check out more images from “Revenants” below or on display at Rectangle in Brussels until February 20th.

“Revenants” Featuring Artists Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva

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REVENANTS

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Post date 26/12/2022

Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva

REVENANTS

at Rectangle, Brussels

Opening Friday 20 January, 5–8pm
Gallery Walk Downtown 21 January, 2pm
21 January – 20 February 2023
Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2–6pm

Waldburger Wouters Gallery
Bd d’Anvers 49, 1000 Brussels

Rectangle is pleased to present REVENANTS, a collaboration with
Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva.

Scale is everything. What may look like a solid upon closer inspection turns out to be a void. Lights in the night sky that to us appear as stars may instead be expansive galactic clouds housing multiple galaxies.

Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic production ‘The Powers of Ten’ (1977) takes us from our tangible human scale – a lazy Sunday picnic scene in a park – to the incomprehensible vastness of space and beyond back, all the way to the sub-atomic realm. At the 24th power of ten, after flying past galaxy clusters, we reach the limit of the known universe in 1977 – 100 million light years away. We’re left with a black screen, and the voice-over cheerfully announces: “This emptiness is normal”.

This is by no means a hollow statement, because after zooming back in through all powers, and diving into our cellular structures, this emptiness is eerily reflected on the microscopic level of the 10th power of minus ten, at 0.01 angstrom.

A similar disorienting sense of relativity can be applied to time: we may notice our Earth’s crust’s movements sometimes as hiccups in the form of volcano eruptions or earth quakes. Despite their potential significant regional impact, they only suggest minor movements on a planetary scale. We tend to think of the planet as fairly stable grounds, but experienced in deep time, Earth behaves more like a boiling, chunky stew. Glaciers flow like syrup, islands pop up and vanish, coastlines fold out of sight, mountain ranges rise sharply and erode into friendly hills, and whole seas evaporate while other basins are being filled. It’s all very exhilarating.

Our current, surprisingly cuddly, upper layer of life wouldn’t have been possible if not for the violent bombardments of meteors our younger planet had to endure. From destruction, an incredibly complicated and elegant biosphere emerged. It’s the conundrum at the roots of myths and at the hearts of circular belief systems.

We’re usually only reminded of our planet’s inner workings when disruptive pyroclastic clouds cancel our flights. Nicolas Sassoon’s ‘Prophets’, sculptures series is literally based on lava rocks, and offers us a view on their own origins. It’s as if these antenna’ed creatures are here, in possibly the least geological space in existence – a contemporary art gallery – to gently remind us of the unimaginable turmoil that is in a constant grind beneath our feet.

Kelly Richardson, on the other hand, transports us out of our troubled atmosphere all the way to the 11th power of ten, and provides us with a breathtaking view on the asteroid belt in our solar system. We find ourselves in a region between Mars – a planet Richardson previously visited in the monumental installation, ‘Mariner 9’ – and Jupiter. The countless slowly rotating bodies appear as crisp as if we’re looking out of the windows of a space ship; all potential new Chixculub impactors – named after the meteor that helped to end the reign of the dinosaurs which resulted in the rise of mammals, including us. The cool light bouncing off of the indifferent chunks of space debris is a distant counterpart of the glowing embers dancing in some of Richardson’s other virtual camera frames.

When we return to the human power of one, we’re left with the realisation that while our species’ behaviour is responsible for the current global extinction event, it’s equally capable of producing uniquely imaginative visions. Art alone can’t save the world but the creation of art may very well be considered as the yin to our destructive yang.

This emptiness is normal.
Text by Alexandra Crouwers.

Documentations

The Powers of Ten (1977)

The Powers of Ten films are two short American documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames

Halcyon Fog

Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Artist’s talk with Kelly Richardson

Kamloops Art Gallery
Curated by Charo Neville

CORES
2020

Eight Fragments on Eight Stones
Essay by Elise Hunchuck and Jussi Parikka

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THE PROPHETS
2019

Text by Nora O Murchú, Artistic director of transmediale

more info

Biography

Kelly Richardson (1972) Canada.

Taking cues from 19th-century landscape painting, 20th-century cinema, and 21st-century planetary research, Kelly Richardson (b. 1972, Canada) crafts video installations and digital prints that offer imaginative glimpses of the future that prompt a careful consideration of the present.

Her work has been widely acclaimed in North America, Asia and Europe. Recent one person exhibitions include NGCA (England), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Austria), SMoCA (USA), CAG Vancouver (Canada), VOID Derry (Ireland), and a major survey at the Albright-Knox (USA).

She was selected for the Beijing, Busan, Canadian, Gwangju and Montréal biennales, and major moving image exhibitions including the The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Her video installations have been included in the Toronto International Film Festival as part of Future Projections, Sundance Film Festival in New Frontier and she was honoured as the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards.

Richardson’s work has been acquired into significant museum collections across the UK, USA and Canada, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SMoCA and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Arts Council Collection (England) and the Towner.

Her video installations have been featured in numerous media including Artforum, The Guardian, BFI Sight and Sound, New Scientist, Time Out London, Aesthetica, British Journal for Photography, CBC, BBC, ITV, Sky News and New York Times.

Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in 1972. From 2003-2017 she resided in north east England where she was a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Newcastle University. She currently lives and works as a visitor on the traditional territory of the WSANEC peoples of the Coast Salish Nation on Vancouver Island, Canada. She is Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria.

https://kellyrichardson.net/

Nicolas Sassoon (1981) France, Canada.

Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms & figures, moiré patterns & architectural structures. His work has long been concerned with the tensions between the pixel and the screen, reflecting on their entanglement and materiality by constraining himself to experiment with pixelated patterns and figures as his sole visual language. This focus on early computer graphics is driven by the sculptural, material and pictorial qualities of this imagery, as well as its limitations and its poetics. A basis of Sassoon’s research centres on digital animations created using a moiré patterning technique; consisting in the overlap of two images to generate optical illusions. This body of work often features abstract animations informed by atmospheric and natural forces. The animations appear on screen as endless hypnotic surfaces, similar to all-over paintings or wallpapers in their composition. The optical properties of these works generate tensions and oscillations in the perception of depth and flatness within the space of the screen. Sassoon’s work also manifests in physical space as sculptures, prints, and monumental projections scaled to the architecture in context, generating experiences adjusted to the human body. At large, Sassoon’s practice relates to many histories of abstraction in painting, optical art, moving image and computer graphics.

Nicolas Sassoon currently lives between Montreal, Canada and Biarritz, France. He is a founder of the collaborative projects SIGNALS and WALLPAPERS. His work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art (US), Eyebeam (US), Current Museum (US), Vancouver Art Gallery (CA), Plugin ICA (CA), Contemporary Art Gallery (CA), Charles H.Scott Gallery (CA), Western Front (CA), PRETEEN Gallery (MX), Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), the Centre d’Art Bastille (FR), House of Electronic Arts Basel (SW), Kunsthalle Langenthal (SW), Arti et Amicitiae (NL), MU Eindhoven (NL) , Today Art Museum (CN), Chronus art Center (CN), the Berlin Fashion Week (DE) and the New-York Fashion Week (US).

https://nicolassassoon.com/

Rick Silva (1977) Eugene, Oregon

Rick Silva is a Brazilian-American artist who makes experimental 3-D animations that explore virtuality, futurology, and speculative ecologies. His works have been screened and exhibited internationally. Recent exhibitions include Hors Pistes at The Centre Pompidou, and State of the Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. His work has been featured in publications such as WIRED magazine and Rhizome’s book Net Art Anthology. Silva lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Oregon.

https://ricksilva.net/

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Wendy Cabrera Rubio

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Post date 15/10/2021

Wendy Cabrera Rubio

Escenario para un genómica Nacional

at Rectangle, Brussels

Opening Friday 22 October, 5–8pm
23 October – 15 December 2021
Open by appointment

Rectangle is pleased to present Escenario para una genomica nacional | Sangre y genética en la post revolución mexicana, a collaboration with Wendy Cabrera Rubio, the first part of a series of pieces in which the artist generates a journey through the myth of mestizo identity in Mexico from the post-revolutionary era to the medical institutions that today continue to generate an echo on the ideals of the mestizo body.

Within this series Cabrera Rubio emphasizes the forms of cultural assimilation that the Mexican government has implemented by means of scientific and sanitary justifications, through the first public health and hygienic education campaigns, supported by the use of strategies such as cinema, radio or petul theater. As well as by the consolidation of organizations such as the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN), which continues to generate categories on genomic differences in the various indigenous communities of the country, validating the idea of mestizaje as the basis for health progress, but also as a fundamental part of the continuous ideological quests for contemporary modernization that continue to permeate Mexico.

Rectangle se complace en presentar Escenario para una genomica nacional | Sangre y genética en la post revolución mexicana, una colaboración con Wendy Cabrera Rubio, la primera parte de una serie de piezas en donde la artista genera un recorrido por el mito de la identidad mestiza en México desde la época posrevolucionaria hasta las instituciones médicas que hoy en día siguen generando un eco sobre los ideales del cuerpo mestizo.

Dentro de esta serie Cabrera Rubio hace hincapié en las formas de asimilación cultural que el gobierno mexicano ha implementado mediante justificaciones científicas y sanitarias, a través de las primeras campañas de salud pública y educación higiénica, apoyándose del uso de estrategias como el cine, la radio o el teatro petul. Así como también mediante la consolidación de organismos como el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), el cual sigue generando categorías sobre las diferencias genómicas en las distintas comunidades indígenas del país, validando la idea del mestizaje como sustento del progreso sanitario, pero también como parte fundamental de las continuas búsquedas ideológicas de modernización contemporánea que siguen atravesando a México.

Acknowledgments

Luis Vásquez
Director de fotografía

Omar Mendoza
Asistente de dirección

Manuel Delgado Plazola
Dirección de escena

Michelle Montiel
Titiritera (sangre y adn)

Yafté Arias
Titiritero (José Vasconcelos y mapa genomico de los mexicanos)

Ileana Moreno
Dirección de video

Percival Argüero Mendoza
Sonido directo

María Juana Patricia Rubio Rosas
Norma Rodriguez Rosas
Wendy Cabrera Rubio
Escenografía y títeres

Carlos Carbajal
Tramoyista

Carlos Martínez y Wendy Cabrera Rubio
Guión

Agradecimientos
Avantgardo, José Castañeda, Marek Wolfryd, Javier Fresneda, Natalia de la Rosa. Carlos Carbajal

Documentations

Biography

Wendy Cabrera Rubio (1993) Mexico.

Completed her undergraduate studies at ENPEG “La Esmeralda” and later entered the SOMA Educational Program. Her work has been presented collectively at el Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Museo de la Ciudad, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, el Colegio Nacional, among others. And individually at, Kurimanzutto, Peana, Biquini Wax EPS, Jumex museum, La Embajada and Nordenhake gallery. It is part of the Young Creators Program FONCA 2021-2022 in the Alternative Media category.

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Elen Braga

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Post date 22/07/2021

Elen Braga

Le Tombeau du Géant

Friday 27 August 2021

at Waldburger Wouters, Brussels

Finissage Saturday 15 October, 2–6pm
27 August – 16 October 2021

Rectangle is pleased to present Le Tombeau du Géant, a collaboration with Elen Braga at Waldburger Wouters.

“For the inauguration of the billboard ‘Le Tombeau du Géant’ hosted by Rectangle, I present a work inspired by the historic site of that name, located in the town of Bouillon in Belgium. Tombeau du Géant (Giant’s Tomb) comes from the legend of the giant Gallic hero who refused to be taken prisoner by the Romans and preferred to throw himself off the “Rocher des Gattes” rock instead of dying in the arena of the Colosseum. The next day, the people of Botassart found his body and buried him on top of a hill surrounded by a river. As a result, today the site has become a well-known and photographed touristic attraction, suggesting the transformation of myth into entertainment.

Besides the billboard, I present a series of 4 works that propose an ironic narrative of the soft fall of monuments, and of the fantasy surrounding it.”

Elen Braga is a multimedia artist. Interested in issues related to the self, she researches themes such as strength, ambition and resilience. Her practice often involves self-imposed tasks, as well as intense labor-requiring endeavors. She delves into mythological narratives, revisiting them to examine the ways in which they survive in contemporary behavior and beliefs.

Documentations

Website: elenbraga.com

Biography

Elen Braga
Born in Maranhão, Brazil, 1984
Lives and works in Brussels

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Hearts and Minds – Catalog Launch

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Post date 02/07/2021

Catalog Launch

Hearts and Minds

30 July 2021

at Rectangle, Brussels

Chantal Akerman
Harold Ancart
Jef Geys
Dan Graham
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Robert Lebeck
An-My Lê
Otobong Nkanga
Marina Pinsky
Claudia Peña Salinas
Adam Simon
Momoyo Torimitsu
Hil Ye

Rectangle is thrilled to invite you to the catalog launch of the group show
Hearts and Minds,
a joint project of carriage trade / Rectangle

We’d like to thank all the artists and the following lenders for their loans of artwork for the exhibition:

Icarus Films (Chantal Akerman), Clearing Gallery, Brooklyn (Harold Ancart), Essex Street/Maxwell Graham (Jef Geys), Greene Naftali Gallery (Dan Graham), Ronald Guttman / Christine Martin, Frédéric de Goldschmidt / André Magnin (Bodys Isek Kingelez), Janice Guy (An-My Lê), Cordula Lebeck, Archiv Robert Lebeck (Robert Lebeck), Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (Otobong Nkanga), C L E A R I N G, Brussels (Marina Pinsky), and AfricaMuseum (Royal Museum for Central Africa).

A special thanks to Lawrence B. Benenson, LMCC, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Mr. Jacques Louise Vidal, WBI (Wallonie-Bruxelles International) and FWB (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) for their generous support. Thanks also to gallery assistants Jervey Inglesby, Laura Li, Molly Miller, Hannah Park, Kristal Uribe, as well as Daylon Orr, for all their efforts on the exhibition.

With the gracious support of

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BOYAMBA BELGIQUE

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Post date 11/06/2021

BOYAMBA BELGIQUE

Or why a king should not lose his sword.

A film by Dries Engels & Bart Van Peel

Online Screening
17 June 2021 – 27 June 2021

carriage trade and Rectangle are pleased to present BOYAMBA BELGIQUE, or why a king should not lose his sword, screening online from June 17- 27, 2021 as part of the exhibition Hearts and Minds, which has been extended through June 27, 2021.

On June 30, 1960, the young Belgian King Baudouin was in Leopoldville (now Kinshasha) for a ceremony to transfer power to the Congolese after more than 50 years of colonial rule. As the procession headed up the crowded main boulevard, a Congolese man came up alongside the limousine from which Baudouin was saluting his troops, stole the King’s sword and ran off. Captured in a now iconic photograph by Robert Lebeck, the image offers proof of a brilliant act of defiance by the colonized in the face of a last, ostentatious display of influence by the colonizer, symbolically taking power before it could be granted.

While the photograph captured the dramatic gesture the instant it occurred, what happened to the man and the sword in the aftermath of the event remained an enigma. Traveling to the Congo 50 years later, the filmmakers Dries Engels & Bart Van Peel try and complete the story of Lebeck’s powerful image, and in searching for the whereabouts of the man and the sword, encounter along the way some of the legacies and consequences of the long shadow of colonial rule.

Hearts and Minds
A joint project of carriage trade and Rectangle, Brussels.
Extended to June 27, 2021

CREDITS:

Directors Dries Engels & Bart Van Peel
Producer Ellen De Waele
In co-production with Isabelle Truc for Iota Production (BE)
Scientific supervisor Zana Etambala
DOP Carl Rottiers
Sound Jevon Lambrechts
Editor Joris Vanden Berk
Componist Andrew Claes
Associate producer Ingrid Coppé
Co -producers Isabelle Truc, RTBF, CANVAS
World Sales Cat&Docs

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Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power” – Hyperallergic

Post author By xavier
Post date 26/05/2021

Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power”
by Billy Anania
Hyperallergic

A collaboration between Carriage Trade and Rectangle, Hearts and Minds analyzes the deceptive repackaging of Western imperialism.

At its core, colonialism is an exercise in smoke and mirrors. The colonized subject becomes an object of state terror while historically, government agencies and the media have repackaged these imperial projects as “foreign aid,” giving way to more indirect neocolonial endeavors. Back home, the rhetoric remains the same; politicians’ fiery speeches continue to convince their domestic population that intervention abroad is in their best interest.

Public relations campaigns do much of the heavy lifting in manufacturing deceptive appeals to “peace” and “democracy,” and otherwise misleading through psychological operations (or psyops). During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson told wealthy business owners that “the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there,” as part of a counterrevolutionary strategy to suppress the Viet Minh army. He used the phrase “winning hearts and minds” in 28 public statements to sell the war.

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Hearts and Minds

Post author By xavier
Post date 25/12/2020

Group Show

Hearts and Minds

Opening Thursday 15 April 2021, 4–8pm
L.E.S. Gallery Evening

15 April – 27 June, 2021

at carriage trade, New York

Chantal Akerman
Harold Ancart
Jef Geys
Dan Graham
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Robert Lebeck
An-My Lê
Otobong Nkanga
Marina Pinsky
Claudia Peña Salinas
Adam Simon
Momoyo Torimitsu
Hil Yeh

Rectangle is thrilled to present Hearts and Minds,
a joint project of carriage trade / Rectangle, Brussels.

Civilization and barbarism are never far apart. As the spoils from subjugating distant countries fill closets, living rooms, and dinner tables, citizens of the empire are encouraged to witness the “improvements” offered by their way of life bestowed upon the many invisible hands responsible for producing it. Employing the tools of public relations to invert standard meanings into their opposites (slavery = freedom, war = peace) the minds of those at home are massaged while villages abroad undergo “pacification”.

"So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there."
—Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., May 4, 1965

In the later stages of empire, as exploration paves the way for tourism, far away cultures are promoted as exotic and unpredictable, introducing “otherness” as an affirmation of the ever-expanding necessity to civilize and control. As empires engage in hot and cold wars to extract and defend resources for domestic populations, patriotism and consumerism unite in common pursuits. While new technologies offer increasingly convincing dream worlds that divert the public’s consciousness, the brutal origins of their creation remain mostly behind the scenes.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.
—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899

With consumerism suffering a pandemic-era blow and a diminishing faith in establishment politics haunting industrialized nations, the pursuit of hearts and minds, so critical to the narrative of empire, struggles to contain blowback from centuries of repressive measures. Filtered through social media feedback loops, governmental and corporate messaging engineered to sway popular opinion now feature distortions and fragmentation that sow confusion while veiling their source, fomenting widespread social unease and sporadic violence.

Living within a kind of informational breakdown, many are now questioning how we got here. Linking past to present through artwork and archival material that collectively address links between the diversions of consumerism and techniques of propaganda in the service of empire, Hearts and Minds, a joint project of carriage trade and Rectangle, Brussels, reflects on the inseparable rapport between public relations and social control both abroad and at home.

—Peter Scott

We’d like to thank all the artists and the following lenders for their loans of artwork for the exhibition:

With the gracious support of

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Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick SIlva

BOOOOOOOM

Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva

REVENANTS

Documentations

Biography

Wendy Cabrera Rubio

Escenario para un genómica Nacional

Acknowledgments

Documentations

Biography

Elen Braga

Le Tombeau du Géant

Documentations

Biography

Catalog Launch

Hearts and Minds

Chantal AkermanHarold AncartJef GeysDan GrahamBodys Isek Kingelez Robert LebeckAn-My LêOtobong NkangaMarina Pinsky Claudia Peña SalinasAdam Simon Momoyo TorimitsuHil Ye

BOYAMBA BELGIQUE

Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power” by Billy Anania Hyperallergic

Group Show

Hearts and Minds

Chantal AkermanHarold AncartJef GeysDan GrahamBodys Isek Kingelez Robert LebeckAn-My LêOtobong NkangaMarina Pinsky Claudia Peña SalinasAdam Simon Momoyo TorimitsuHil Yeh

"So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there." —Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., May 4, 1965

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires. —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899

Chantal Akerman
Harold Ancart
Jef Geys
Dan Graham
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Robert Lebeck
An-My Lê
Otobong Nkanga
Marina Pinsky
Claudia Peña Salinas
Adam Simon
Momoyo Torimitsu
Hil Ye

Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power”
by Billy Anania
Hyperallergic

Chantal Akerman
Harold Ancart
Jef Geys
Dan Graham
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Robert Lebeck
An-My Lê
Otobong Nkanga
Marina Pinsky
Claudia Peña Salinas
Adam Simon
Momoyo Torimitsu
Hil Yeh

"So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there."
—Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., May 4, 1965

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.
—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899