CHARLES DANBY
<<CURATORIAL PROJECTS ARCHIVE / SOUL STRIPPER
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| 2008 SOUL STRIPPER / 16 -30 April Francesca Anfossi, Stephen Bishop, Olivier Blanckaert, Bas de Wit, Benny Dröscher, Jack Duplock, Wouter Feyaerts, Caron Geary, Patrick Goddard, Matthias Groebel, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy & Andres Laracuente, Andrew Mania, Arif Ozakca, Thomas Raat, Corrado Sassi, Veronika Veit Private View: Friday 18th April 8pm- late Friday-Sunday 2-6pm and by appointment Projet Midi 3 Rue du Rectangle, 1080 Brussels, + 32 488 345 788 PROJET MIDI in association with curator Charles Danby is pleased to present Soul Stripper a group show of international artists.Soul Stripper takes its title from a Heavy Metal song by AC/ DC from 1974. Just as AC/DC has returned a generation of i-pods, so post-modernity has been re-re-synched via a fresh set of cultural references and casual recollections, a frenzied debasement of all that is since 1910.The works shown disclose the hedonistic and the forbidden, drawing on psychological distress and embracing a liberalism attached to referencing a century without recourse or throwback. Post-produced these are the innovations of a still-young century in which modernist codes nestle between quotations of a post-technological age spliced with implausible outcomes and synthetic codes. Barefaced seduction sits against a counter-celebration of low –fi aesthetic. Soul Stripper soul searches today’s multi-layered cross-threaded maze of information and lays bare a temporal stasis within a generational overkill of post- production and reproduction. | .jpg) |
1/10_>> | Installation view of Soul Stripper (2008) |
| Soul Stripper was initiated by Projet Midi, a temporary exhibition space in Brussels, and was realised with contributions from: The Agency/ London, Aeroplastics/ Brussels, Vilma Gold/ London, Figge von Rosen/ Cologne, Transit/ Mechelen, Rokeby/ London, Upstairs/ Berlin, Yukiko Kawase/ Paris, Alexandre Pollazzon/ London |