From Me To You Space

During Antwerp Art Weekend, From Me To You Space, in collaboration with Carl Haase, will present an exhibition in line with the space's annual theme, spotlighting four artists/publishers whose practices engage with words, language, and writing. Each day, we will shift focus to a different approach, highlighting the diverse and distinctive ways these artists explore and reinterpret the relationships between language and artistic expression.

Participating Artists: Annabelle Binnerts, Kristof Van Gestel, Clara Amaral, Jeroen Peeters

Annabelle Binnerts' work envelops reader-viewers within language, and beckons them to step through a door, into an elsewhere hidden behind written words, where the boundaries that separate the world into distinct entities become porous and open to interpretation.

Kristof Van Gestel is a participative visual artist. Since 1999 he makes artworks and projects that focus on questioning and finding a place for art and creativity in the daily world.

Clara Amaral works with writing, performance, printed matter and publishing. Her interdisciplinary practice questions what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing modes of reading, writing and publishing.

Jeroen Peeters is an essay­ist who works across the media of wri­ting, not-wri­ting, per­for­mance and publi­ca­ti­on. He resear­ches mat­ters such as eco­lo­gies of atten­ti­on, mate­ri­al liter­a­cy, rea­der­ship, com­mo­ning and cul­tu­ral rewil­ding.

Lecture-performance by Jeroen Peeters.

How do artists work? How do they speak about their practice? In search of an answer I started gleaning gestures and attitudes from practices of writing, editing, publishing, but also from related practices in ethnography, dramaturgy and translation. This growing library of practices by now constitutes the Bandergewilden notebooks.

29.05, continuously with readings at 15:00 and 19:30

A publication by De Collectieve Collectie.

At the invitation of From Me To You Space, artist Kristof van Gestel is collaborating with the fourth-grade pupils of De Kleine Muze primary school (Borgerhout) to create stories and poems. Drawing inspiration from their own handmade collages, the pupils will participate in a series of workshops. The results will be brought together in a beautiful publication.

30.05, 15:00

Performance by Clara Amaral.

"She gave it to me I got it from her" is a book and a performance. By way of the voice and an intricate composition of gestures, Clara Amaral guides the spectator through the different chapters of the book.

31.05, 15:00 (duration 60 minutes)
Graphic design by Ronja Andersen and Karoline Swiezynski