Carnival of Souls at M HKA Museum is inspired by the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, traditionally celebrated annually on the night of October 31st. Samhain marked the end of summer and the coming of winter, the dying of the light and the arrival of darkness. It was perceived as a liminal festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld was believed to be blurred. Reflecting on the element of liminality hidden beneath the tenets of the dominant culture, the exhibition presents a new series of sculptural masks. It invites viewers to join this ‘carnival of souls’, engage in a play of shadow and light, and become enchanted by the places ‘in-between’.
In 'Hedge Rider’ at DMW Gallery, Fia Cielen is bent on depicting states in which we can reclaim a sense of wildness, as a means of expressing the intuitive feeling that estrangement can be intrinsically natural. She therefore presents a new series of works that invite us on a journey beyond the hedge, into a shape-shifting realm unaffected by the rules of our reality.
The Agprognostic Temple is a nomadic art space that was founded by the artist Dome Wood and the art critic / curator Sam Steverlynck in 2020 in Brussels. It aims to showcase art in new and unexpected ways and to probe the spiritual, the unknown and the ungraspable in current artistic practice. The inaugural exhibition, called Scripted Truths (August 29 – September 27, 2020), functioned like a manifesto and united nine artists (Ricardo Brey, Fia Cielen, Benjamin Husson, Felix Kindermann, Philippe Koeune, Shana Moulton, Isabel Tesfazghi, Lou Touchard, Filip Vervaet) working around the theme of spirituality, the esoteric, and personal mythology.
