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Though Leung’s works are highly attentive to their physical surroundings, she conceives of them not as site-specific but “context-contingent,” capable of being realized again and again in different places, but each time conditioned by institutional circumstances that would determine their form. Likewise, they accrue new layers of meaning as they circulate through different situations. When Violets 2 was originally exhibited at Netwerk Aalst, for instance, it was installed on the floor of the gallery space one story above the bar from which the pipes had been removed, mirroring their former placement, only this time as a waste product instead of a conduit for its elimination, as if the building were spilling its guts. Subsequent presentations, however, must contend with the challenges of one set of architectural footprints descending on another, with the reconfigured pipes now foregrounding the spatial eccentricities of their new containers. Meanwhile, Shrooms is particularly effe ....
There is a gleeful, thrown-together energy to the artist’s sculptures, which use faded flags, barbed wire and bunting to portray a country on the skids ....
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The art of Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim will make you laugh, cry and possibly yawn as they confront the dystopian crisis we’re in ....
Leen Voet creates series of paintings that are combined in spatial installations. M will present several of these groups of work from the last 15 years of her practice. ....