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Evelyn Simons

Evelyn Simons
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Curatorial
    Invisible alliances 
    Where the Wild Things Are
    The Never Never (LU)
    Terre en Force 
    The Never Never (DE)
    The Act of Breathing 
    Trouble 
    Family Affair
    Flying on the raven’s wing
    Ame de Serre
    Fallen empires and refound desires
    Along the way
    No needs an another mountain
    I Spy, I Spy a little lie
    Perpetual Construction 
    Driftwood 
    Notes on our equilibrium
    Onder Ons 
    Inhabited by objects

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Emeka Ogboh, The way earthly things are going 
Photo’s by Olmo Peeters 


Fallen Empires and Refound Desires 

with Emeka Ogboh, Benni Bosetto, Caroline Mesquita, Lito Kattou, Manolis D. Lemos, Maarten Van Roy, Christoph Meier, Philip Janssens

performances by Michele Rizzo, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Nicholas Hoffman and Laura Pudulek and Amber Vanluffelen

Horst Arts & Music, Vilvoorde 
14.07 - 15.09.19
Production coördinator Louise Goegebeur 
Exhibition catalogue

Our generation is getting ready, preparing itself, getting armed for the coming fall. Rather than succumbing to a nihilistic cynicism; rather than surrendering to useless emptiness, this apocalyptic mood entails the promise of a new start. Former victims of Weltschmerz and melancholy become the winners of this new world order.

They know how to deal with a fragmented worldview more than that they can accept a singular and central- ised one. They operate in horizontal power structures and accept and even find richness in conflicting opinions. They rediscover nature, the organic, as well as their own body, and look for a refound authenticity amidst an industrial wasteland filled with technological ruins, governed by artificial intelligence and claustrophobic algorithms.

The exhibition brings together artists who are empowered by these changes, and who redefine their fear for the future as an exploring, tentative optimism. Their works touch upon the botanical and the cosmic, folkloric tales and oral traditions, ancient and contemporary myths, and look at the regenerative potential of collective transgression and the romance brought by decadence.

Asiat – a former military terrain — counts as a symptomatic relic of the conservative status quo currently trying to protect its hegemony while crumbling down globally. This setting reminds us of this power structure long lost, irrelevant in today’s society, strength- ening the self-confidence for this new agency and makeability.


Benni Bosetto, Jewels
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt


Caroline Mesquita, Els, Charmant, Lotte, Kevin, Carolus, Kasper and
Richard, Adam & Gentille + Some blue in my mouth (video)
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt

Christoph Meier, Turm IV
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt

Lito Kattou, Erratics
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt and Olmo Peeters

Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos, Feelings
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt

Philip Janssens, The Opposite of Lost
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt


Maarten Van Roy, Earthblade, machine can come
Photo’s by Matthijs Van Der Burgt


Michele Rizzo, Spacewalk
Photo’s by Olmo Peeters