Curating is Writing the Future. A Portrait
Solo exhibition by Stijn Van Dorpe at Eté 78, Brussels. A project in the framework of Caveat
28/09-27/10/2019
Saturday 28/09, 16-20h: Opening
Exhibition open on 5, 12, 19 and 26/10, 14-18h
Eté 78
Rue de l’Eté/Zomerstraat 78
1050 Ixelles/Elsene (Brussels)
Belgium
Curated by Stijn Van Dorpe in collaboration with Convivial, Florence Cheval, Fonds du Logement, Olivier Gevart and initiated by Eté 78 and Caveat
As a kind of anthropologist, Stijn Van Dorpe started his exploration of the Eté 78 space and its surroundings, which he describes as a micro-environment. In doing so, he wants to investigate the space, mechanisms and potentiality of art. The micro-environment involves the exhibition space, the ‘give away’ library, the private collector’s house, the social housing project (Fonds du Logement) on the other side of the street… as well as the protagonists related to these spaces: the artist himself, the owners/co-initiators of the art space, the art collector, the curator, the craftsman, the civil servants…
Van Dorpe approaches the whole context of this micro-environment at short range, as a kind of test case to analyse and open up the art space and the relational positions floating around it. Van Dorpe uses the concept of “third spaces” (situated between institutional art space and other places created by society) in order to describe this opening up of different spaces towards one another, the creation of interstices between them, which also functions as a means to shift the ecology of the art field towards the wider society.
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