Digestive Disaster, Lucky Star, 2020
STEMS Gallery

"Digestive Disaster, Lucky Star", a group show curated by Maurane Colson and Marion Denné, features eighteen works, including performances, paintings, drawings and sculptures. Seventeen were produced especially for the occasion. Including works by Jack Brennan, Tom Hallet, Leo Luccioni, Sarah Margnetti, Omsk Social Club, Florian Reither, Nicolas Stolarczyk, Urara Tsuchiya, Amber Vanluffelen and Stef Van Looveren.

We’re setting 2020 off with a dinner party, spiritual nourishment in a white cube. Dining is the symbol of society’s conspicuous consumption, self-indulgence or excess. For this meal, we would like to focus on the rituals that go with it, togetherness created over a meal. Dining is a performance that spans only as long as people eat and can never be replicated in the same form.

We have invited artists to be our guests at the table, and deal with the concept of a dinner party where the main matter is of sociality and conviviality, to join in pleasure by presenting transdisciplinary work.

« To Matthew » captures the violence that was inflicted on Matthew Wayne Shepard during a cold October evening in 1998. The only portions of his face not covered in blood were those that had been streaked clean by his tears. With fine lines, Hallet narrates the brutality of this hate-crime into a fairy martyr. Flowers bloom in a surreal swamp setting.

Exhibition text, written by Maurane Colson and Marion Denné

installation view "Digestive Disaster, Lucky Star"
one drawing on the left together with O'o #2

installation view "Digestive Disaster, Lucky Star"
two drawings on the right

Queen Mab, 2019
21x29,7
pencil on paper

To Derek, 2019
21 x29,7
pencil on paper

To Matthew, 2019
21x29,7
pencil on paper

O'o #2, 2016
15x15x3
taxidermy bird and butterfly

To Matthew, 2019
21x29,7
pencil on paper

Queen Mab, 2019
21x29,7
pencil on paper

Eye 2
12x5
talc-schist