SOUL STRIPPER

CHARLES DANBY

SOUL STRIPPER

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2008

SOUL STRIPPER
16 April - 30 April

Projet Midi
3 Rue du Rectangle, 1080 Brussels, + 32 488 345 788,

All Images: Installation photographs of Soul Stripper, 2008, Brussels

SOUL STRIPPER
Private View: Friday 18th April 8pm- late
Friday-Sunday 2-6pm and by appointment

Artists:
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

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.

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

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All Images: Installation photographs of Soul Stripper, 2008, Brussels