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CMMC, The Writing Performance, Publiek Park, Ghent, 2020, Photographer Lars Duchateau
Exhibition
CMMC - Sun Tan
11 Feb 2022 – 27 Feb 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Cost of entry
Admission: with voluntary donation; recommendation 6 euros
Online
- Language: German
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For their solo exhibition at IKOB, CMMC takes the museum's physical adjacency to a tanning salon as a starting point for a performative installation. "Sun Tan" explores (artificial) solar power as energy and affect.
About
CMMC is an artist duo focused on performance. Somewhere between strongly intuitive and oddly constructed, their practice combines language and doubt. Often driven by questions on (expected) skill, CMMC works with duration, quickly alternating emotions and long recitations. Over the years their work evolved to more stylized conceptual responses to the invitations they receive; from a 6 hour a day massage for 4 days in a row in a museum; to trying to write a novella in three days on sugar and water in the exhibition; to declaring entangled trees on the premises of an institution, a performance of their making.
CMMC (Céline Mathieu and Myrthe Christianne van der Mark, 1989, BE and NL) performed in galleries and at art fairs internationally in Berlin (Berlin Art Week), Hamburg (P/ART), Manchester (Manchester Contemporary, Castlefield Gallery), Rotterdam (Wo Meine Sonne Scheint) and in Antwerp (M HKA, Kunsthal Extra City, Trampoline gallery), Leuven (Museum M), Ghent (Publiek Park, Vooruit, KIOSK), and Brussels (Poppositions). For their residency at AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz, they were supported by the Flemish Government.
