Opening: 1.10.2022 - 16 - 20h
1.10 - 22.10.2022
Thu, Fri and Sat 14 - 18h or by appointment
The artists of The NordiK Government collective work with different media, from painting to sculpture, from video to performance. However, each of them considers drawing as one of their basic tools no matter as a figurative or abstract composition, as an act to mediate agency or as digitally generated format.
The exhibition of D-raw-ing consists of a display of each of the artists' individual practices pragmatically curated into a larger whole. This set up represents the collective : each individual practice is respected while creating a welcoming, dynamic space when coming together.
The NordiK Government is a collective of four Belgium and France-based Finnish female artists Krista Autio, Maija Heiskanen, Laura Puska and Ines Laukkanen. The collective was formed in 2020 during the global pandemic when there was an urge to connect with each other. The origin of the group stems from questioning the notion of the individual artist and a desire to delve into the possibilities of collective making. The NordiK Government's purpose is to explore the different forms of working together through practice-based research on an experimental platform.
The NordiK Government's first exhibition Dis-Dancing was held during WeArtXL in Vermeulen, Ixelles in September 2020, right before the second lockdown in Belgium. The second exhibition Af-ter-ing took place in Studio 68 in Antwerp from December 2021 to January 2022. Af-ter-ing as a title of the current show is a continuation of Dis-dancing. It is a word play : achronological description concluding what happened during the first year of The NordiK Government, from distance and dancing to after and making again. The dynamic meaning of the English suffix "-ing" is exploited as the collective strives for active collaboration; doing as a core principle. D-raw-ing continues the series of the collective’s shared practice.
This exhibition forms part of Brussels Drawing Week
https://www.drawingweek.brussels/fr/
