Inke Arns and Pélagie Gbaguidi
Debating chamber: On poaching and appropriation
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Debating Chambers serve as the public forum of the Département des Pièges. During discussions in the exhibition space, speakers are encouraged to draw inspiration from the objects, paintings and artworks on display. These conversations aim to loosen rigid systems of classification and expand the limits of contextual information. Four sessions will be held during the exhibition. At each session, two speakers explore a specific theme, followed by an open discussion with the public.
- As part of
- Département des Pièges
- Date
- 16:00 — 18:30
- Location
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Room 9
- Rates
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Free
- Tickets
- Tickets available soon
Clémentine Deliss, director of the Metabolic Museum-University and creator of the Département des Pièges, will moderate the discussions.
Seating is limited, but recordings of each Debating Chamber will be available to watch online.
Inke Arns has been the director of Kunsthalle Dortmund (formerly HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein) since 2017 and its artistic director since 2005. An independent curator, writer and theorist specialising in media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe since 1993, she holds a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin and was a visiting professor at the Münster Art Academy in 2021 and 2022.
Based in Brussels, Pélagie Gbaguidi describes herself as a contemporary griot. Through painting, writing and installations, she explores individual and collective memory and confronts colonial trauma and injustice. Drawing on archival research, she recontextualises the past to challenge ongoing cycles of injustice. Her work has been presented at international institutions and biennales.
About the exhibition
With a wink to Brussels artist Marcel Broodthaers, Clémentine Deliss invites you to enter the Département des Pièges. Here, you will find a selection of unexpected artefacts and paintings from 11 Brussels museums as well as works by contemporary artists. From elaborate fishnets to hunting decoys, psychiatric tests and trompe-l’oeil paintings, each exhibit relates to the concept of the trap. You are invited to study these diverse traps and participate in this "museum-university".
