Cantus Firmus

Christophe Meierhans' four new video works - starting point of the Cantus Firmus-show - are about shortsightedness. Not the kind of shortsightedness that an optician can help us correct, but the kind which we are all without exception too shortsighted to notice: ethnocentricism, as an unspoken condition for the understanding of our surroundings.

Everything is music. We compose our thousand daily decisions in the accompaniment of the millions of experiences we have had thus far. It is a second nature we build for ourselves and we expect it to be the commons. 24 hours are run in 40 minutes. Speech and intuition race against the clock. Bang! "Chance favors only the prepared mind" says Pasteur.

This is yet another group exhibition, yet another sacrificial ritual in the name of representation. Sounds, letters, sentences. We are writing texts and making references to the great thinkers – is it just a symphony of control? We want words to decipher, not to formulate. Trancendence should lead our way towards betterness and infinity: it is a trap for subject matter.

Cantus Firmus as a centrifuge for realites. So Beware of the fox that feeds the goose! No – Sabotage – and China does not exist. Who knows? Maybe tomorrow the postman will be whistling some Schönberg. All we need is: Oculus non vidit, nec auris audivit.

Website Artists:
Christophe Meierhans
Esref Armagan
Kristina Benjocki
Irina Birger
Matthijs de Bruijne
Alexis Destoop
Laurent Liefooghe
Jeanine Woollard
Jiao Xingtao
Caetano Carvalho

Co production: Kunst/Werk vzw
with the support of: VGC(traject subsidie), De pianofabriek, Nadine-Brussels
Mondriaan Foundation