AMP: THE WHETHER OR NOT ASSUMPTIONS (TWONA)
←back to index2016; installation & performance with Katinka de Jonge
presented at Paris Texas, Antwerp, BE
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(...TWONA) was a groupshow (...) initiated by Wouter Van Loo. Van Loo invited six female artists that were somehow in the same point in their artstic career [Karina Beumer, Erin Helsen, Fia Cielen, Karolien Chromiak, Liesje De Laet and Katinka de Jonge] to join.
Liesje De Laet and Katinka de Jonge were participating under their fictive company name AMP. Questioning the concept of the show [the decision to invite only female artists] they proposed to add a 'fictive layer' over the exhibition, which could form the framework that shaped the connection between the artists participating. The group then decided to transform the show into a soloshow of one fictive artist, named Merlyn T. Miller.
AMP (... created) works that anticipated on the formation of this fictive figure, wrote a fictive novel, organised a seance, and made '(...title)-cards' that reframed the works in the exhibition space. Next to this they provided the press release of the show where the voice of Merlyn T. Miller was included.
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