We are happy to invite you to the HISK laureates exhibition 2021: Various Positions, Gosset site, Brussels
U bent van harte welkom / we would be happy with your presence
VARIOUS POSITIONS HISK laureates exhibition 2021 Curated by Sam Steverlynck
OPENING Thursday [removed], 18:00 – 22:00
OPEN [removed] – [removed] [removed] – [removed] Thursday till Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00
Book Launch January 2022
Gosset site – Building A (first floor) Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6, 1080 Brussels
The exhibition Various Positions, whose title is borrowed from the homonymous album by Leonard Cohen, brings together the artistic practices of the second-year candidate laureates at HISK. Their practices vacillate between the studio and the outside world; from the place where – according to the romantic cliché – artists can explore their true, authentic self to their encounters with the world and others. As such, their practices range from painterly, sculptural, photographic or cinematographic quests to different ways of engaging with social or economical structures within our society. They approach their subjects in different ways; through the investigation of family histories – in a dreamlike installation evoking long gone memories or through research in what lies behind stories of exile – or explore, for example, the linguistic situation in Belgium, the country’s economic interests in its former colony, or poetic reflections on our global [removed];Although each artist occupies his or her own distinct position – both within the institute as within their clearly defined zone in the exhibition – the scenography suggests different perspectives and vantage points, linking the individual islands through a network of connections.
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