EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (PDF)
AN EXHIBITION AT THE INITIATIVE OF LENA HAGER & LUKE LUKE LUKE
CO-DIRECTED AND ASSISTED BY EVE IDA FIERTAG, LUNA LAMBERT & PAUL PERRUCON
with the support of l'École de Recherche Graphique & la Commune d'Ixelles
with :
VINCENT BENTOLILA, RUNE BERING, RACHEAL CROWTHER, LOUIS DAVID, ROMÉO DINI, JACQUES DI PIAZZA, LAMBERT DUCHESNE, LENA HAGER, LUNA LAMBERT, LUKE LUKE LUKE, PAUL PERRUCON, ROGERGOON, EMMA VAN DER PUT, COLLECTIF DERNIER SOUFFLE – SIBYLLE DE LA GIRAUDIÈRE, PIERRE BOYER & JÉRÉMY REYNAUD
Between the 8th and the 14th of May 2023, the collective exhibition This is Nowhere, and it’s Forever was on view in the commercial lot of the former Libris library, inside the Galerie Louise mall, Av. de la Toison d'Or 40, 1050 Brussels.
Taking its cues from the editorial project 250_Ko by Lena Hager and Luke Luke Luke, published through Acédie 58 in May 2022, this in-situ exhibition comprising 16 artists intends to revive the library, which has been vacant for almost a decade, prompting a dialogue between their pieces and the temporal qualities of the location. Through in situ proposals, the exhibition aims to emphasize the context of the space, as well as the socio-economic parameters and contemporary reflections that surround it.
What was initially a project around the constraints and limitations of the Nokia-3310 (2017)’s camera, the book 250_Ko Lena and Luke to question the ambivalence of such an object. This phone became a repurposed tool for an hauntological investigation while simultaneously witnessing its poetics: absurd mundane scenes, billowing landscapes, indecipherable materials, and anecdotes left adrift between tenderness, chaos and drama. Similar inquiries arose from the abandoned liminal space which has housed This is Nowhere, and it’s Forever. Both petrified in a bygone era and stretched towards what Mark Fisher identified as “lost futures”, the space exists in a disturbing atemporal present haunted by persistent specters, which stand contrary to its dilapidation andpotential future activations.
The exhibition will be open to the public from the moment the first artwork is installed, giving visitors the chance to witness its full conception by working around the unique temporality of this space through the blurring of the opening and closing of the exhibition. This is Nowhere, and it’s Forever will assemble artworks which, through their materiality and/or presence in the space, question the lags between our present and its haunted futures.
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Philippe Van Roy (1980-2023),
magazines pages, installation, dimensions variable
Luna Lambert - Lambris d’appui (2023),
wood, paint, installation, 110x140cm
Roméo Dini - AW Myths (2022),
photographs printed on aluminium, steel frame,
80x40 cm & 60x40 cm
Vincent Bentolila, Untitled (2023),
urban fluids, installation, dimensions variable
Rogergoon - Cookies for the minotaur (2023),
sound installation, 6,46’
listen here
Collectif Dernier Souffle (Pierre Boyer, Sybille De La Giraudière, Jérémy Reynaud) - Untitled (2022),
installation, dimensions variable
A view on the elevator from outside, where Collectif Dernier Souffle stacked up some of their pannels
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Call home (1990-2023),
phone card, CPU socket, installation, dimensions variable
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Photo1349.jpg & Photo0377.jpg (2019-23),
paper, ink, glue, installation, dimensions variable
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Attire clients (2023),
incense, installation, dimensions variable
Paul Perrucon - SUPERHIGHWAYS.emotional (2023),
paper, ink, text, 21×29,7 cm
Library/lounge space on the first floor with some writings that shed lights on our preoccupations for the show including :
Inside the White Cube by Brian O’Doherty, Le corps utopique- Les hétérotopies by Michel Foucault,
K-punk by Mark Fisher, Non-lieux : Introduction à une anthropologie de la modernité by Marc Augé,
Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud, Place and Placelessness by Edward Relph (extract)
and a few articles about the history and controversies around the space in which the show was taking place.
Jacques Di Piazza - Zones de transit (2022-2023),
plaster, tarmac and rug, installation, dimensions variable
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Les relations réciproques (1970-2023),
bubble level, picture mounted on wood, installation, 13,5x30,5cm
Emma Van Der Put - Mall of Europe (2018),
HD video, 26’,
sound by Maxime Rouquart
Stills from Mall of Europe
Rune Berring - Cosmos-field-730379245 (2021),
laserprint, paper tray
Louis David - 110kHz (2023),
video installation, 10,43’,
sound by Virgile Guillaud
watch here
Lena Hager & Luke Luke Luke - Untitled (1901-2023),
magic lantern, carbon tripod, steel, wood, plastic, led, diapositive,
installation, dimensions variable
Racheal Crowther - Best Before (2023),
pharmaceutical wall clocks (originally manufactured for promotional purposes),
installation, dimensions variable
Office space scenography for Lambert Duchesne’s video work
Toys don't get wrinkles but they do age
Lambert Duchesne - Toys don't get wrinkles but they do age (2023),
video, 3’30
