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From April 27 th till June 1st 2008, CC Belgica/Huis Van Winckel, Kerkstraat 24/28, 9200 Dendermonde (B)
Introductory statement
The title IT’S NOT FAIR – LE MONDE EST ARBITRAIRE (It's not
fair, the world is arbitrary) is meant as a nonsensical truth:
a truth without clear outlines that obtains significance trough
its context. In the Huis Van Winckel (the Van Winckel
mansion) the title refers to accessibility as a double-sided
phenomenon (as opposed to the idea of accessibility as the
lowest common denominator). This issue is represented
through the question of inside and outside.
By showing art as a (mild?) derailment of reality,
the artists animate and intensify daily environments.
They make capricious connections between 'here' and
'somewhere else' in some cases it becomes a conceptual
and/or cerebral evil twin, creating an alienating and elusive form of domesticity.
The title may as well refer to the more unrestrained corners
of consciousness: the uncontrolled moments where precision
dilutes into absurdity: a liquid dinner party, the undefined
end of an evening when some of the guests are drawing
circles on the table cloth while others consider whether
art is making life more interesting than art. Somebody
who's not expected is standing at the door the guests
invite her in, but she replies:
I'm not sure if I'm really the one who's out ...
Bram Van Damme
