#019 Gesticulating...Wildly
Exhibition Design
2021, Eupen, BE | Client: Helen Anna Flanagan
Venue: IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art | Team: Mika Radescu, Kim Fuchs | Curator: Brenda Guesnet | Photos: Lola Pertsowsky | Status: Completed
“Gesticulating… Wildly” is the first institutional solo exhibition of Rotterdam-based artist Helen Anna Flanagan. The video- and installation-based presentation brings together Flanagan’s Gestures film trilogy (2019-2020) for the first time, in which the artist positions characters in a particular public space and causes them to collide in peculiar ways. Echoing this choreographed approach, her films are embedded within a playful installation in IKOB’s exhibition space.
Elements such as minimal brick walls, floor markings and sculptural works that draw from various film scenes simultaneously structure and unsettle the viewer’s experience. Flanagan’s primary concern is the exploration of how and why people act in certain ways, leading her to imagine how different characters might relate and react to the underlying structures of society and power.