Reincarnations II: To reflect
In April 1986, a group of Belgian artists featuring Hugo Roelandt, Greet Verlinden, Marc Holthof, Jan Heremans, Paul Vandenbussche and Johan de Bruyn staged three actions at the Fundació Joan Miró as part of an Espai 10 season entitled Water and Water. One of these was The Shape of Water, an installation by Hugo Roelandt in the North Patio that was based on the gesture of transporting, storing and displaying a material that is by definition irreducible, such as water.
The fluid, subtle and elusive materialities characterising Roelandt's work float in a queer desire to identify with that which escapes representation, to highlight that which resists encapsulation and crystallisation. A moment of clarity occurs when the sunlight bounces off the surface of the filled bags: what we see is not water, but a brief moment of beauty, in which a sparkle reminds us of what is important, what deserves to be observed, reaching our eyes not to capture them, but to transform them. There is a political poetics in glare, a tiny revolution in unstoppable evaporation.
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Duration
1 hour
Place
North Patio
Dates
19 July 2025, at 6 pm and 7 pm
Price
10€, 5€ Friends of the Fundació Joan Miró
