Chanter l'enfer [To Sing Hell], 2010
Installation, 120 x 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 33 x 7 cm, 5 x 5 x 5 cm.
image: © M HKA, Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK7731_M480).
In 2010, François Curlet visits the home of Clergyman Andras Pandy in Brussels, which had only just been released for sale by the police; it was a “psychological Bermuda triangle” where the serial killer, Pandy, had murdered six family members, later dissolving their bodies in acid. On his return from this voyage into horror, the artist carried with him a number of souvenirs, or relics, including the curtain of the small window at the front door and the spindles of a peculiar banister that lingered somewhere further on, objects which continued to bear the faint stain of those dramatic events. He converts these objects into new likenesses, for example, transforming the staircase spindles into open bird feeders. With the knowledge of these recycled objects’ history, the viewer is forced to pause and contemplate the power inherent of things and how they bear within them the capacity to channel evil.
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> François Curlet.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Bornem - Gedeelde Ruimte. CC Ter Dilft, Bornem, 03 May 2014 - 25 May 2014.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. Stad Geel, Geel, 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part IV: Dealing with Catastrophe, The Flow of the World. M HKA, Antwerp, 18 November 2017 - 07 January 2018.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Dealing with Catastrophe.
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> Ensemble: To Sing Hell.
> Ensemble: GEWELD | VIOLENCE.
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.