About life always flowing and moving.

Following our conference in March, this expo at the Educational Academy makes a connection between art and science and ethics. In-house artist Katrien Cassiers curates this modest expo that seeks above all to leave room for life itself that is ever flowing and moving. On display in our buildings from September. Katrien explains below.

The exhibition “Stream of life” starts from the poem by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore who reminds us that life has a timeless rhythm, a life force that flows through everything, yearning for itself. We see the slow flow in fossilized marble veins, in etchings and photographs, in hand-spun blood-red threads, in plants and stones….

During this expo, the special question arises as to who the artists are and even whether an artist created a work. Or was he merely an observer, an observer who discovered life or a memory of it. Must art be made, as an artifact as it were, with the intention of creating something new or may an artist also show a discovery, a memory.

Just as a photograph of a forest, however full of life, is not the forest and the forest an sich was not created by the artist but captured and can take us into the experience of a forest. Some of the works on display were created in and through the flow of life itself. They bear witness to a life far before there were humans, go beyond our imagination of time and space, place our own current flow of life in a humble perspective.

Other works just confront the finitude and temporality of that flow, giving it something very unique.

The poetry of the Persian poets Rumi and Hafez adds the breath that breathes life. In addition to the very earthly flow of life, a spiritual dimension comes into play in this way.
In therapy we curiously search for signs of life: where does it flow and where does it stagnate, what wants to come alive and is allowed to do so at the pace it needs. Curiosity about the small breath, about subtle movement, about stillness and the heartbeat are almost literally a common thread throughout the exhibition.

Empty as a flute, curious about how life takes shape.

This expo features work by Nina Marte Wilson, Tim Verhaegen, Moena Verheyen, Yentl Gijbels and Katrien Cassiers.

Practically speaking:
>Are you taking classes at EA? Then you can admire ‘Stream of life’ continuously from the beginning of September until December 24 on class days between 10 am and 5 pm.
>Not an EA student? Then you are also welcome. Either make an appointment with the secretariat, or come to the vernissage.
>The vernissage will take place on Saturday, November 25, from 2pm to 6pm.