1 dec 2022 - 15 dec 2022
Leuven
ELAPSE
With the exhibition ELAPSE, Curating the Young facilitates a dialogue between four artists and the exceptional context of the old silos at the Vaartkom in Leuven. As a remainder of the city's last industrial mill, the silos can be seen as a place of reflection on the continuous development and impermanence of our living environment.
Andrei Haesen zooms in, to a microscopic level, on processes, interactions and disintegrations in which the slowing down or halting of time plays a major role. Jan Van Eijgen uses fungi as a medium to explore the relationship between humans and phenomena such as transition and regeneration. Maarten De Laet's works have a surrealistic effect, creating a new universe. Inspired by her personal collection of found objects, Amber Roucourt explores the limits of the fragility of the medium in a performative and playful way in which movement is always key.
The selected artists hold up a mirror to the silos and their history by materializing the same themes in their own art practices, namely process, movement, development and transformation. The impending privatization of the silos further accentuates the urgency of these artistic gestures.
What to expect?
4 young artists.