Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
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Thierry De Cordier
(c) Thierry De Cordier — image: M HKA, 2026
Je ne suis rien, rien, rien, 1982
Central to Thierry De Cordier's work are humans: their loneliness, their limitations, and their hope for answers. One could view his work as a philosophy, but expressed in images. His thinking aligns with the absurdism of Albert Camus: the senseless search for meaning in an incomprehensible universe. On a white surface, De Cordier writes ‘je ne suis rien rien rien’ [I am nothing nothing nothing], ‘written’ by perforating the surface – written with ‘nothing’.
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