ERIC VAN HOVE (1975)
"(...) But for him, and on his terms, keeping in her body the ineffaceable archive of this event: not necessarily an infant but a tattoo, a splendid form, concealed under garments in which blood mixes with ink to reveal all its colours to the sight. The incarnate archive of a liturgy whose secret no one will betray. One that no other person could really appropriate. Not even I, who would, however, be in on the secret."
Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the other: or the prosthesis of origin, Stanford University Press, 1998, page 52. (Translation by Patrick Mensah).
"Nous voici devant l'abîme. Il est vide de tous les songes dont l'avaient peuplé nos pères. Ils croyaient savoir ce qui s'y trouve ; nous savons seulement ce qui ne s'y trouve point. Il s'est étendu de tout ce que nous avons appris à ignorer. En attendant qu'une certitude scientifique y interrompe les ténèbres - car l'homme à le droit d'espérer ce qu'il ne conçoit pas encore,- le seul point qui nous intéresse, parce qu'il se trouve dans le petit cercle que trace au plus noir de la nuit notre intelligence actuelle, est de savoir si l'inconnu où nous allons nous sera oui ou non redoutable."
Maurice Maeterlinck, L'anéantissement, in La Mort, Bibliothèque Charpentier, Fasquelle Éd., Paris, 1953, page 33. >
Solo-exhibitions since 2007
2009 Metragram Series, Rossicontemporary, Brussels; Vacilar, adhoc galeria, Vigo 2008 Freer trade, ::.: ..: ::.: :. : . .: , San José, Costa Rica; Off the record #2, Shimbashi Station, Tokyo 2007 Dan liever de lucht in #1, Royal Belgian Embassy, Tokyo; Dan liever de lucht in #2, Lokaal01, Breda
Group exhibitions since 2007
2009 Jordan Festival, Amman; Last Day of Magic, The Borders, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, New York; ScalaMata Gallery, 53rd Venice Biennale satellite, Venice; Cul-de-sac, 53rd Venice Biennale satellite, Venice; 16th International Festival of Video Art, Haut Institut des Arts Plastiques, Université Hassan II, Casablanca; 4th Urban Scenographies, Johannesburg; Toute cruauté est-elle bonne à dire?, La Centrale Électrique, Brussels 2008 From Japan, Fordham University's Center Gallery, New York; Michiyuki (Video-talk with Michel Assenmaker), De Avonden (Etablissement d'en face projects), Brussels; Boom-Boom, The 4th Bishkek Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bishkek, Kyrghystan; Into the Atomic Sunshine, Hillside Forum, Tokyo; Chinese Character Biennale, Ku art center, Beijing; Localisms, De Paviljoens Museum, Almere; Into the Atomic Sunshine, The Puffin Room, New York 2007 No Man’s Land, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke; Syllabograms, Geidai Art Museum, Tokyo; Water, ink: world of monochrome, Ueno City Art Museum, Tokyo; 30 et presque songes, Zone zital ankorondrano, Antananarivo; Memory in Motion (public art project), Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Munich; Pilot:3, Monastery of St. Damian and St. Cosimo, 52nd Venice Biennial satellite, Venice; Ecumenopolis, Location One, New York; Three Dialogues, Bloomberg Headquarters + Art in General, New York Resonances, STUK, Leuven
Selected artist talks/storytelling objects since 2007
2009 DIVA series, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco 2008 La Casa de los tres Mundos, Granada, Nicaragua; Massey University, School of Fine Arts, Wellington, New Zeeland; Rumah Air Panas (RAP), Annex Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; ArtEast, Bishkek, Kyrghystan; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland 2007 Arts en Liberté Gallery, Algiers, Algeria; Green Papaya Art Space, Metro-Manila, The Philippines; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan; Alliance Française of Yangon, Union of Myanmar; New York Studio Program, New York, USA; The Khalid Shoman Foundation / Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan; Academy of Humanities and Economics, Łódź, Poland; Be(com)ing Dutch Causus, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Academy for Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro; La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium; [AIT] Art Initiative Tokyo, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Selected art residencies since 2007
2009 Centre International des Récollets, Paris, France 2008 UNESCO, Aschberg artist Residency; ::.: ..: ::.: :. : . .:, San José, Costa Rica; Location One, New York, USA 2007 Darat Al-Funun, Amman; Centre for Community Cultural Development, JCCAC, Hong Kong; Ku art center, Beijing, China; Lijiang Studio, Lijiang, Yunnan/Sishuan, China; ArtEast, Bishkek, Kyrghystan; Fenenin el-Rahhal, Western Desert/Cairo, Egypt