© Helen Anna Flanagan
24-26 nov 2022
Opening hours: 7pm - 10:30pm during the show
Contact & reservation: janknops@atelierarthurrogiers.be
Address: Keizer Karelstraat 103 - 1000 Brussels
Metro: 1 en 5 (Schuman)
Bus: 28 - 61 (Ardense Jagers) 64 (Luther)
60 - 63 (Ambiorix)
Vowels are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Something, anything is an installation that examines self-expression as an intoxicating force. The installation explores social behavior and language as structured through the logic of games in which the rules remain unknown. Awkward manoeuvres, ceaseless mouthing, diverted gazes, repetitive utterances, meandering monologues and disorientating discourse are used to communicate. Something, anything.
Helen Anna Flanagan is an artist working in video, performance and installation. Flanagan was a resident at HISK, Gent from 2019-20 and is a graduate of Falmouth University of Arts (UK) and AKV St Joost (NL). A selection of solo exhibitions includes CENTRALE | lab, Brussels; IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen; V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam; bb15, Linz and galerie Gallery, Rotterdam. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions including most recently Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Aspex, Portsmouth; Museum M, Leuven; Focal Point Gallery, Southend; WIELS, Brussels; Kunsthal Gent; Projektraum 145, Berlin; Netwerk Aalst; IMAI, Düsseldorf; M HKA, Antwerp; CAMPO Victoria, Gent; MOMA Odessa, among others. Her films have been presented at several festivals and platforms including Playground Festival (BE); Sharjah Film Platform (AE), Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (IT), Proyector Plataforma de Videoarte (SP), Go Short International Film Festival (NL), November Film Festival (UK), Film and Video Poetry Symposium (USA), Plymouth Contemporary (UK), Art Rotterdam (NL), and The Room Projects (FR). Her work won the IKOB Feminist Art Prize (2019), the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2020) and the second prize of Art Contest Brussels (2021).