Talk .WIT BOEK: Bruno Devos in conversation with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven & Céline De Schepper

In connection with the exhibition . WIT BOEK — featuring more than fifty contributions from as many artists — we are organizing a public discussion with artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven* and Céline De Schepper**.

Bruno Devos, publisher and co-curator of the exhibition, will talk to them about the origins and significance of artists' books: why do artists make them, what added value do they have, and how do they differ from traditional exhibition catalogs?
These and other questions form the starting point for a fascinating discussion that offers insight into the process, choices, and power of artist publications.

Starting at 4 p.m., we will bring the exhibition to a festive close with the finissage. Come by and join us for a drink to celebrate this special edition of WIT BOEK.

Talk — Saturday 04/10 - 11:00
Finissage . WIT BOEK - 16:00 uur
FRED&FERRY - Antwerp

Welcome!

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Since the early 1980s, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has been prolific in her output of drawings, paintings, collages, video and digital works. A straightforward female tone prevails in all her works, in which the erotic meets machine fetishism. Interiors if not domestic spaces often serve as settings for her drawings and collages, from which dream-like futuristic enactments between human and machine-like forms unfold. In the early 1990s, computer graphics entered her work; she often appropriates images from soft-porn magazines which she then manipulates using her computer. Text has always featured alongside images, underlining the message of Van Kerckhoven’s proud female characters. She demonstrates her interest in science and artificial intelligence – and their interaction with art – in an intuitive and rather associative way. Music plays an important role in Van Kerckhkoven's creative production in parallel to her visual output: she and Danny Devos have stood as a key pair of the international experimental music scene under the band name Club Moral (1981–now).

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Céline De Schepper is an artist based in Brussels, working at the intersection of fashion, material culture and visual arts. She holds an MA in Fashion Design from ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels. With a background in jewelry and design, her practice explores the tension between consumption, identity, and heritage by transforming everyday objects into talismanic artifacts. Through a research-driven and process-oriented approach, she dissects systems and recodes meanings, proposing new symbolic elements that frame and challenge our daily culture. She operates as a domestic anthropologist, a collector and curator of material culture, using experimental processes to question the symbolic value of objects in a world of mass consumption.