Jared Madere & Mathias Toubro I Floor Pal V I Opening Friday 20th January 6-9pm I Brussels

Artists – I’m sure you’ve heard this too – like to gather in certain cafes and bars. It’s where they form their “community”. We imagine it’s very fun and rowdy, but also intellectually riveting and completely instrumental to their artistic genius. Artists meet in the cafes as lovers hold hands across small tables and walk along the Seine; meet at park benches to exchange sweet nothings and desperate everythings. All of it’s a kind of love story, epic and evergreen, complex but never not [removed];

Or what? Is being in love and being an artist not more like being subtly always hangry? Floor Pal V is an exhibition about the combustion of the myths around romantic twosomeness, artistic community, urban chic. It’s like Nigella Lawson’s worst nightmare: serving quail to large numbers of people and realising that it’s mostly carcass, what she calls ‘itsy-bitsy and failed nouvelle’. Here, in the harsh light of the morning after, witness the breakdown of pretension, a source of energy exhausted, some grand notion just flat on its face: the corniness, the filth, everything that’s left over — quite a lot, [removed];
(excerpt of the exhibition text by Kristian Vistrup Madsen)