For this exhibition, artists Soohyun Choi, Olivia Hernaïz and Ruth Waters question the testing of boundaries between consumption, cognition and communication. The cautionary phrase « Don’t push your luck » is a warning to not go any further, beyond what is deemed to be currently possible. From this standpoint, the artists begin to challenge the status quo, proposing the questions: Has the time come to push one’s luck? Are we to accept only what is offered? If our generation is the first be statistically worse off, isn’t pushing one’s luck exactly what needs to be done?
UU (The Artist as Director) est un projet de recherche créé par Montecristo Project qui prend la forme d’expositions, d’essais ou encore de conférences. Inspiré par les travaux d’Ugo Ugo (1924), artiste, directeur et créateur de la collection d’art contemporain de la Collezione Ugo à Cagliari, ce projet examine le travail de nombreux artistes qui ont été fondateurs ou directeurs de lieux culturels et artistiques. Cette recherche tend à étudier la manière dont les artistes créent, programment et dirigent ces lieux en assumant le rôle de curateurs, mettant en place de nouvelles approches afin de mieux appréhender la relation entre les oeuvres, l’espace et leur contexte. La première présentation d’UU a eu lieu lors d’une exposition réunissant les fondateurs de Montecristo (Enrico Piras et Alessandro Sau) ainsi que Lorenza Boisi, artiste et fondatrice-directrice de MARS, Milan, et Ugo Ugo. Le second chapitre de la série a présenté les travaux de Sébastien Bonin, fondateur d’Island, Bruxelles, dans un nouveau lieu, spécifiquement imaginé et conçu dans un endroit reculé des montagnes Sardes. Au sein d’Island, l’exposition rassemble ces expériences en présentant les travaux de ces artistes-directeurs et un aperçu de la figure qu’est Ugo-Ugo.
Emile Rubino (French b. 1992) lives and works in Brussels. His domestic approach to picture-making is informed by a flirtatious relationship to other means of depiction and an embrace of eclecticism. Over the past few years he has been producing modestly scaled photographic tableaux in handcrafted artist’s frames. While his photographs tend to remain rooted within a documentary mode they are also the outcome of labored processes involving photoshop. By locating and following the internal logic of a picture as a subservient strategy his work often results in a contrived kind of photographicness.
He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, Canada) in 2015, and his MFA from Bard College program in advanced photographic studies at ICP (New York, NY) in 2017. Selected solo exhibitions include other things, ICP-Bard studios, New York, NY, Real Allegory, Spare Room, Vancouver, Canada (2015), Still Disappearing, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Ami Omo (curated by Lucas Blalock), Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY (2018), Vancouver Carry On (curated by Felix Rapp), Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (2018).
Island is pleased to invite you to Ficticious Legacies
presenting Antonia Brown, Justine Court, Johanna Grivel, Naomi Quashie & Maurine Rolland
September 6th – 30th, 2018
Opening: Wednesday, September 5th, 6pm
Performance: Naomi Quashie, How to transform ourselves, 7.30pm
Ficticious Legacies is a project born of a meeting of diverse feminine subjectivities. How to approach the characteristic difference of these subjectivities, while avoiding the pitfalls of a recurrent paternalism and cultural ethnocentrism ? Is it even possible ? To do this, the exhibition becomes a fictional body fed by narratives that intersect and allow to build a fictional landscape while affirming the content of these five personalities, enriched by their respective Kin.
Ficticious Legacies was initiated in the frame of the seminar ‘Après l’école’ of La Cambre coordinated by Céline Gillain.
in collaboration with La Cambre arts visuels
with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles/Officiel, COCOF and Duvel
Solo show
Performance Night
Conference
Hors-les-murs: Chaussée de Wavre, 155, Ixelles
Solo show