Suspended spaces

A COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE

Exhibition

Bringing together inter­na­tion­al researchers and artists, the Suspended spaces collective works around geographic spaces whose evolution has been frozen by political, economic or historical factors. Formed after the experience of the Cypriot ghost town of Famagusta, Suspended spaces moved on to Lebanon and more specif­i­cal­ly Tripoli, on the unfinished site of Oscar Niemeyer’s Inter­na­tion­al Fair. The collective then went to Brazil where the MAC - a con­tem­po­rary art museum built by Niemeyer in Niterói - and its double, the MACquino cultural and social centre, interface with vulnerable populations of the community of Morro do Palácio, work with the neigh­bour­ing favela, in a Brazilian society that is violent and divided. Each of these visits resulted in residences, works, encounters, colloquiums, pub­li­ca­tions, etc.

The BPS22 presents an ensemble of works (photos, videos, sound and sculptural instal­la­tions) produced by Suspended spaces since 2007, as well as never-before-seen documents relating to the col­lec­tive’s upcoming residence in Amazonia. The exhibition is an opportunity to revisit the modernity and diversity of these projects in order to understand and influence (or not) a socio-historical and geopo­lit­i­cal future that is not necessarily all that far off. Implicitly, it is also about questioning the conditions of con­tem­po­rary artistic practices, productions and thoughts.

Artists: Ziad ANTAR, Kader ATTIA, François BELLENGER, Filip BERTE, Marcel DINAHET, Yasmine EID-SABBAGH, Maïder FORTUNÉ, Lamia JOREIGE, Valérie JOUVE, Jan KOPP, Bertrand LAMARCHE, Lia LAPITHI, Daniel LÊ, Armin LINKE, André PARENTE, Françoise PARFAIT, Sophie RIS­TEL­HUE­BER, Mira SANDERS, Stéphane THIDET, Eric VALETTE, Christophe VIART, Mehmet YASHIN.

Curator: Dorothée Duvivier

In the framework of the 100 years of Culture in Hainaut.