The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

(c)image: AMVK
Book , 14.5 x 20 cm
Paper, ink

Urewut, a mystic all-devouring rage.

"These images counter bottomless depths of alienation and unreality. In 2002, in the middle of summer, I took a series of photographs in a sunny French seaside resort at the Atlantic. The loud and outraged beach fun passed me by completely since I was there all by myself, just passing through. I added pictorial elements to 5 of the photographs, did this in a rage of anger and frustration in December 2005, at home, sitting in front of the TV, shortly after I took a look at the most recent overview of contemporary Flemish painting. Then some scraps of text ended up on each of the images: sex-related reflections I wrote years ago. Living and suffering create a contradictory set of images that in its course is trying to iron out a vital problem of an unextinguished yearning for love."

— Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven