The exhibition will show work by Oona Vanderleenen, Yoko Enoki, Koyuki Kazahaya, Chiara Monteverde, Kato Six, Faryda Moumouh, Eline De Clercq and the Art Club Borgerhout.
The exhibition 'Downtown Borgerhout' will not have a public opening night, instead we ask you to visit during opening hours:
Saturday 03 October 14.00 - 18.00 h
Sunday 04 October 14.00 - 18.00 h - workshop by Yoko Enoki and Eline De Clercq CANCELED due to travel restrictions
Friday 16 October 14.00 - 18.00 h
Saturday 17 October 14.00 - 18.00 h
Sunday 18 October 14.00 - 18.00 h - workshop Chiara Monteverde at
13 - 17 h and workshop Kato Six from 14 - 17 h
Friday 23 October 14.00 - 18.00 h - Performance by Chiara
Monteverde 20.00 h
Saturday 24 October 14.00 - 18.00 h
Sunday 25 October 14.00 - 18.00 h - workshop by Katrin Kamrau and
a workshop by Koyuki Kazahaya
To attend the workshop, please make a reservation via: info@werkhuys.be or 03/4324210
About the artists:
Chiara
Monteverde is an Italian dancer based in Brussels. She
graduated in Art History, at the Università degli Studi di Torino, studied
dance in Milan at the DanceHaus Susanna Beltrami. She moved to Brussels in 2016
where she got in touch with artists from different disciplines. Thanks to these
new influences she began to find her artistic path between dance and performing
arts and collaborated with some young artists to develop Artist Commons,
a community that organises public performative events. Chiara worked as a
dancer for the Valeria Magli,
Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, “You
can call me Page”, “Ne mosquito pas” a project designed by Simon Van
Schuylenbergh,
“NO SEX NO SOLO” a
duo performance made with Sophie Melis, “My name is Goyl” a duo
performance with Pierre Patrice Kasses.
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| How to celebrate Useless Time? |
During the Lockdown I went through several stages, I tried to make a plan to use the time of these days, suddenly empty, to do some “useful stuffs” that I was never really having the time to do. But in the end I did a lot of “useless stuffs” that I never planned to do. These things really helped me to find again the connection with myself.
What is it really useful and what is it useless? Can we somehow define what is useless? And if we can not define it with words can we define it with our gestures, with our bodies in movement or still, with a face expression? We are trained to be focused, useful, productive, competitive and fast. What happens if for one day we train to be unfocused, useless, unproductive, and slow?
Koyuki
Kazahaya Lives and works in
Brussels, she is a visual artist who uses large scale charcoal drawing, print
and movie-sound installation. Kazahaya’s work is about memories, sequences
and trails attached to specific locations that have been transformed by human
activity and abandoned after natural resources were depleted or a disaster has
happened. Since 2014, she combines landscapes from Japan with desolate
landscapes from Belgium, the artificial hills in Genk, the ghost town of Doel
in Antwerp, Hell's pool and Forgotten Castle Castillo de Setefilla in
Seville. http://koyuki-kazahaya.blogspot.com/
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Moment, Cherry Blossom 3, 2019
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This work is about cherry blossoms in
Fukushima. Cherry blossoms are blooming every year even if
there is a big change like a disaster happened. I couldn't face
on the flowers when the diasater happened in 2011 but
after few years I could look at them again. Flowers look like
fragile and momentary but time or human life is more
transitory and impermanent. I have been working about the
issue of Fukushima's disaster and since 2012 till now I’m still
visiting same places every year to keep a log.
Oona
Vanderleenen lives and works in Antwerp, Oona grew up
in an environment where art, design, literature and music play an important
role. She paints as if painting is evident, but she chooses not to study art, or become an artist. When she paints she doesn't feel the need to achieve something, and this is visible in her work, the playfulness and freedom that seem so
easy is something most artists can only dream of. Oona is currently working on her studies.
Faryda
Moumouh works as an artist with the photographic image. She finished her
studies as a Master in audiovisual and visual arts, with an extracurricular
'Open Atelier' at School of Arts St. Lucas Antwerp. Her identity took shape
against a multicultural background, with both Moroccan and Belgian influences,
resulting in a divers unique style. With her camera she approaches her direct
surroundings, she's passionate about the human condition and the philosophy of
existentialism and her big inspiration Jean Paul Sartre. www.faryda.com
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Inner Grounds, 2019
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How memories and experiences in the world are creating your inner space, inner identity. It is a connection between the world outside and the world inside. That’s the ground or the basic we start from. It is an inner identity – connected with everything around the subject. An existential view of existence. Solitude and endless time, walking around with open eyes and mind. Feeling connected with myself and the surrounding, my camera as companion and catch it with my camera. Taking those photographs is a start to sketch in Photoshop to recreate a new language or narrative. By creating new images, layered in one. A selfportrait from the inside out.
Kato
Six In
her artistic practice Kato Six employs familiar material culture to reconfigure
the ways we make ourselves at home in the world. Through an explorative
approach and a rich breadth of material and processes, she makes sculptural
interventions that engage with the margins of space and grapple with the limits
and possibilities of form and design. Next to a deep interest in textiles and
carpentry, her main material interests are ‘natural’ products like different
kinds of stone, plants, landscapes and other outdoor experiences that we see
reproduced in the interior space we live in. www.katosix.be
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Kato Six
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The
objects and drawings she makes are in one way references to a piece of
furniture or clothing and in another way they are spatial interventions
investigating our always-mediated relation to our surroundings. Her
workshop will focus on drawing and writing.
Yoko
Enoki Lives and works in Yokosuka, Japan. Her art works start from the
written text. The narrative is always an important factor in her works.
These days she paints portraits. Fictional stories come out from the very
normal faces which she paints. She acts as an observer and writer to where
these stories can take her. Her work was shown at 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. WIELS Projectruimte Brussels; BankART,
Yokohama. Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery: Arts Maebashi, Beijing International
Art Biennale, and Gendai Heights -Gallery Den5.
www.yokoenoki.com
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The first school day
size:318×410cm 2020
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"I was looking at children when there was the lock down in Japan due to Covid-19. Children who usually go to school, cram school or sports clubs suddenly showed up all over town. At the start children gathered in the corners of park, playing TV games, and they rushed out into nature little by little, in the end they were singing in the rain on the weekend, just before school began. What a freedom. Each one has so much energy, holding their own world , running around. A so-called "Hope" sometimes appears in the form of a person."
コロナ禍の中、私は子供を眺めていました。今まで、学校や塾やスポーツセンターに閉じ込められていた子供たちは突然町中に現れました。
公園の屋根の下に集まってテレビゲームをしていた子供たちは少しづつ自然の中で駆け出し、学校の始まる前の最後の週末には雨の中で歌を歌っていました。
そのなんと自由なこと。一人一人がその中に広大な世界をかかえ、元気よく飛び回っています。
希望っていうのは人の形をとって現れることもあるんですね。
今回の作品はコロナ禍の子供たちを観察して描きました。
コロナが緩んだら、この子供たちのお話を聞きたい。私にお話をしてくれないかしらと思っていたところ、ワークショップの機会を頂くことができました。お話ししてくれる子供たち集まれ！あなたのみている世界の話をしてください。
Eline
De Clercq lives and
works in Antwerp. She used to come to Tokyo quite often and the Japanese
culture influenced her style of drawing and painting, the imperfection of a
human touch is combined with the rich Flemish art history. Eline paints
colourful portraits of women and trees. Her series show women from different
sources, like fashion models, classic literature, magazine shoots and
historical paintings. Her subject is ‘caducity’, when nothing is in the right place. Her paintings are warm, almost careless, expressive and
optimistic.
'Downtown
Borgerhout' is een reeks portretten van de vrouwen die in de Permeke bibliotheek
materiaal ontlenen, ze zijn het gezicht van de mensen die kiezen voor cultuur.
Het idee voor deze reeks is ontstaan uit de kinderboeken die in de jaren 70
werden getekend, en waarin er werd gerecycleerd, geknutseld, toneel gespeeld,
en alle soorten kinderen speelden mooi samen. Deze portretten zijn eenvoudig,
toegankelijk en duidelijk en laten een stukje van onze samenleving zien in een
schilderij.
Art Club Borgerhout Founded by Eline De Clercq, this Art Club is a new initiative on
inclusive visual arts. Weekly Tuesday meetings with local youths are used to self
organise and create a direct connection with artists and the local art
scene. A session in the art club consists of an introduction to art
techniques (drawing, painting, sculpting etc) art history today
(herstory, inclusivity, new canon, decolonisation) mapping the interests
and needs, writing a program of art visits, learning Dutch, looking
into education options, strengthening a C.V. and meeting like minded
people. This initiative got support from the city of Antwerp.artclubborgerhout.blogspot.com
With the kind support of the city of Antwerp
