Hatching from Scratch
group exhibition
Hatching from Scratch brings together 28 artists whose practices reflect and re-articulate what three dimensionality encompasses today. Thinking through the body, the territory and the imaginary, they set out a range of conceptual openings that unfold across the space in perpetual engagement with one another, turning on questions of friction and subjective transformation.
The exhibition offers the metaphor of an itch as a provocation. The scratch, a resistance to that discomfort carried through the artists' material experimentation, activates their intimated impressions. What emerges from the interplay is the hatching, an opening that reshapes how the artists perceive and inhabit the concurrent, multidimensional spaces they move between.
The works attend to the body and its sensory attachments, to memory and ecological fragility, to language and its speculative crossroads. Through multisensory and spatial approaches, the artists draw the audience into foyers of imagination and inquiry, provoking conversation and other practices of seeing, sensing and hatching, and inviting us to start it all from scratch.
The exhibition was realised in a collaboration between Kunstwerkt, Curatorial Studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and Kunsthal Mechelen.
Kunsthal Mechelen, 2024