The exhibition explores the tension and harmony between two universes often perceived as opposites: the sacred, imbued with spirituality, rituals, and mysticism, and the profane, rooted in everyday reality and materialism. Through a variety of works, the exhibition invites reflection on the blurred boundary between these two dimensions, while revealing their mutual influence on our culture and perception of the world.
“Between Sacred and Profane” will feature a range of works, including sculptures, documents, relics, goldsmithing, and furniture.
Transcultures, a partner of the exhibition, will present three videos from its catalog (which will be showcased at the heart of the exhibition space) by artists Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Régis Cotentin (France) et Gauthier Keyaerts (Belgium).
Slyder - Régis Cotentin (Fr)
‘Slyder’ is a dreamlike dive where the organic energies meet with the digital fluxes; ‘A disorder wins the spirit of a survivor. The song of the chimeras of the past pushes him towards the blackness of his mental screen, but a surprise awaits him when he spots the vanishing point of his memory … mirroring as it mirrors the present … and the journey continues’.
Following a residency of European Pépinières of Creation between Paris (where the coordination of the Pépinières is established) and Charleroi (where is based Transcultures, coordinator of the European Pepinieres for the Federation Wallonia-Brussels) in the beginning of 2019, Régis Cotentin, French film director and visual artist has just finished a new phantasmagoric video work of which he has also composed the soundtrack.
Régis Cotentin
Exhibition curator, in charge of contemporary programming at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, Regis Cotentin has been developing, for twenty years, a fantastic and dreamlike visual work selected in numerous international events, which privileges the link between the contemporary image and open electronic and contemporary music.
Windmaker - Kika Nicolela (Br/Be)
A woman struggles to find her place in the relationship to the infinite nature. “Windmaker” offers a phantasmagorical journey of a female character, where it is unclear whether the camera is following her thoughts or the shadows cast by her mind and body.
“Windmaker” was originally developed as an interactive installation involving 6 industrial fans, movement sensors, mobile sculptures connected to a computer and a video projection. As the viewer enters the room, she realizes she is provoking the changes in the artwork, but she can’t control them, as one cannot control the blowing of the wind. The work involves the audience as ‘co-authors’, while denying them any possibilty of control.
Kika Nicolela
Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator, living between Brussels and São Paulo. Having Graduated in Film and Video at the University of São Paulo, Nicolela has also completed a Master of Fine Arts, at the Zurich University of the Arts. Kika Nicolela is interested in the encounter with the other, mediated by the camera – mostly, the video camera. The camera is a tool for her, to investigate representation and self-representation, identity and otherness, portrait and self-portrait, and create a space of fluctuation between these poles.
She is interested in making videos and video-installations that allow the spectator to have a larger role in the production of meaning; that is, works in which the meaning is reached through the constant negotiation between the spectator and the elements – often multiple and ambiguous. This ambivalence in the moving image is what she is searching for: pieces that produce a heightened experience in the very ambiguity of our own subjectivity, and of the real.
Ces petits riens #4 (2020) - Gauthier Keyaerts (Belgique)
Ces riens essentiels is an infinite work-in-progress, initiated during the lockdown. The journey actually started in 2018 when Gauthier Keyaerts was in Brittany, shooting images from the Ocean, the shore, lichens… He brought back this particular energy and feeling of spirituality (felt by André Breton). It helped since March to focus on the essentials: family, body, nature (insects, trees, flowers…), love… this sublime chaos.
Gauthier Keyaerts
Gauthier Keyaerts questions ‘matter’ through sound and through still or moving images, in an interactive and complementary style. Sonic artist (several albums published on Sub Rosa and Transonic as well as installations and performances broadcast internationally) and interdisciplinary.
He bases his work on two essential elements: a radically materialist approach, a real call to rediscover our senses whether through sound or image, and a willingness to communicate with the public, to generate a free and open space of reflection. His favorite subjects are life, nothingness, the beauty of insignificance, the elements, time, and memory.
Informations
- 06 > 14.10.2024 | 09 > 16:30
- Septem – Jardins du Cloître
- Grand’Place 37, 7330 Saint-Ghislain Belgique
- septem.stghislain.be
Production
- Septem with the companions of Ursidongue
- In partnership with : Transcultures, CIPAR, Centre d’Histoire et d’Art Sacré en Hainaut, Hainaut Culture, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, le Diocèse de Tournai, Centre Interdiocésain et la Ville de Saint-Ghislain
