SUPERDEMOCRACY

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    SUPER DEMOCRACY - The Senate of Things

    Three cultural institutions enter into a dialogue with the Belgian Senate during the exhibition SUPERDEMOCRACY, which is on display throughout October. BPS22 in Charleroi, BOZAR in Brussels and M HKA in Antwerp provide a cultural dimension to the Senate’s current issues.

    1.10.2017 - 31.10.2017

    Ria Pacquée

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    Courtesy of the artist, image: (c) M HKA
    I didn’t do it, 2016
    Ria Pacquée
    Installation , variable dimensions
    Graffiti

    Ria Pacquée has organised many performative interventions and statements within the urban landscape. Since 1978, she has spread political slogans in the streets of Antwerp as one strand of her practice. This includes sentences such as “Oh godverdoemme” (“Oh goddamn it”) or “ga langzaam naar uw werk” (“go to work slowly”), and are written onto abandoned buildings using spray paint, but occasionally within exhibitions. This message “I didn’t do it” is on the one hand a contradictory message, as the artist carries out the (sometimes illegal) acts herself. “I didn’t do it” is also something said in Chapter 5 titled Blue of Bolaño’s Antwerp, in a scenario when a local person is questioned by the police following the shooting of six young people close to a campsite.

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