The Still House Group - Project space II

The Still House Group has been invited to occupy Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens for nearly four months, exhibiting both their work and a program of nine rotating projects.

Room A: Screening Room

For the second instalment of Room A, the eight original members of Still House have assembled a 90-minute film. The project revolves around the use of appropriated footage, utilizing source material as a ready made. Each artist was responsible for four clips - an interview, music video, commercial and a scene from a narrative film.

Edited together at random, the film explores American culture, both high and low, providing an underlying visual background to the work on display in Service Entrance. While no clip was directly chosen to for its relationship to the respective artist's practice, each were chosen by the artists nonetheless, and serve as a subconscious context to the sculptures and paintings exhibited at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens.

Room B: Phoebe Collings-James, Jack McConville and Dominic Samsworth

A presentation of recent work by artists Phoebe Collings-James, Jack McConville and Dominic Samsworth

Room C: Opening Towards the Hidden Faces of Fresh Natural Fruits

This room has been allocated to three consecutive exhibitions designed by Belgian inmates within the Prison of Andenne, comprising their project This World of Cut Thorns.

In partnership with Art Without Bars, artist Zachary Susskind led a series of workshops within the prison during 2014. Introducing the notion of the exhibition as an art form in itself, he hoped to promote the inmates’ collaboration toward aesthetic and conceptual statement-making.

The Still House Group has provided their own works for the inmates to contextualize as well. In Opening Towards the Hidden Faces of Fresh Natural Fruits they embrace the tropical and exotic in liberating fantasies while wrestling with paradoxes inherent in attaining the fruits of ambition.