Founded in 2015 by artists Meggy Rustamova, Pieter Geenen, Eitan Efrat and Sirah Foighel Brutmann, MESSIDOR emerged as a platform to reflect on and experiment with the possibilities of collective practice within the contemporary artistic landscape in Belgium and beyond. The collective was conceived as a space for dialogue: a way to question authorship, exchange methodologies, share infrastructure, and explore how artistic practices can intersect while maintaining their individual trajectories.

For the exhibition “Pathway of the Air”, the artists return to earlier works from their individual practices, reconsidering them in light of today’s geopolitical context.

Pieter Geenen’s work is characterised by an interest in the potential of the gaze, exploring the relationships between duration and memory. Through his observant and site-specific practice, he seeks to bring the ever-changing world momentarily to a standstill, creating pauses in which doubt and reflection can arise. His work manoeuvres between the imagined and the real, the static and the moving, image and sound.

Meggy Rustamova’s practice unfolds through films and installations that combine images, gestures, and sound, often with a performative dimension. Her work explores relationships between individual and collective memory, language, and human behaviour, seeking ways to translate contemporary social and political realities.

The collaborative practice of Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. Their work highlights the spatial and temporal possibilities of reading images, exploring the relationships between spectatorship and history, the temporality of stories and memories, and the material surfaces of image production.

Through newly produced works, reconfigurations, and remakings, earlier works enter into dialogue with the present moment, opening them to renewed readings and shifting interpretations. The exhibition moves between past and present, proposing ways in which images, memories, sounds, and narratives can be continuously reactivated through time.

Opening at Out of Sight on 14 May 2026 during Antwerp Art Weekend, the exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme of performances, talks, and screenings. Full programme will be available in April.

OUT OF SIGHT is a non-profit, artist-run venue for contemporary art based in Antwerp, founded in 2018 by artists Dušica Dražić and Wim Janssen. The organisation operates at the intersection of artistic research and presentation, social engagement, and civic participation, positioning art as a shared space for inquiry, learning, and collective imagination. OUT OF SIGHT fosters a collaborative approach to supporting the development through presentation and mediation of audiovisual, experimental, and time-based artistic practices.

The program is built around international cooperations among artists, curators, researchers and the public at large. OUT OF SIGHT contributes to a cultural landscape in which diverse forms of knowledge, expression, and belonging are recognised, shared, and valued, and where artistic practice functions as a connective tissue between communities, generations, and disciplines.

OUT OF SIGHT aims to find a potential hidden within what is often perceived as different, marginal, unprofitable, or unwanted, making room for the ephemeral and the ambiguous. It provides a space where the poetic and the political meet.