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Three Tropes for Entropy, exhibition view, photo Chantal van Rijt
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Programme d’une pensée sans domaine, mountaincutters, 2022 Steel, blown glass, mimosa flowers, copper, agar-agar, kapok, paper, oil, photo Chantal van Rijt
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Fool’s Paradise, Angyvir Padilla, 2018 ceramics, charcoal, sound system
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Rotating Table / Speculative Device, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, 2018 mirrored-polished steel, rotating device, tripod, split branch
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Systemic Grid 3b (puddle 2), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, 2015 laser-cut, mirror-polished steel
Exhibition
Three Tropes for Entropy
5 Feb 2022 – 1 May 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- C-mine 10
- bus 1
- Genk
Flanders - 3600
- Belgium
Three Tropes for Entropy – a transformative, growing exhibition at CIAP, Genk.
About
Three Tropes for Entropy delves into the distinctive practices of mountaincutters (FR), Angyvir Padilla (VZ) and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (ES) and presents their singular approaches towards notions of flux, energy, and transformation.
Laila Melchior and Koi Persyn — laureates of the second edition of the Lichen Curatorial Prize — present a transformative exhibition connecting three artistic practices and methodologies to the unique site of the former Winterslag coal mine. Having hosted an industrial complex of coal exploitation for approximately a century, this former mine site embodies the capacity to generate and process energy not only through its history but also in its recent transformation into a creative hub.
‘Trope’ and ‘entropy’ share the same ancient Greek root in the word τροπή, evoking the ideas of turn and transmutation. Tropes are literary motifs that use figurative forms of language to increase the tangibility of meaning, stimulating associative perceptions. Entropy is a term that has gained momentum in current times. A scientific concept that stems from thermodynamics, it indicates a transmission process within a closed circuit. Drawing from this specific usage to a more general one, it has been widely used to exemplify the irreversibility of time, of processes that have a clear start but no defined end and that can become quite invisible, as much as they are omnipresent.
In parallel with and inspired by such a mixture of possible approaches to the phenomenon of transformation, the exhibition itself undergoes a change over its course. Three Tropes for Entropy opens with clusters of works highlighting each participating practice and gradually evolves towards an intermingled diffusion of particles. These transformations will be marked by three activated moments or chapters – identified by the curatorial duo as exhibition’s ‘tropes’:
risquer sa mutation :
programme d’une pensée sans domaine
05.02 – 03.04.2022
Ella es su espejo incendiado, su espera en hogueras frías.
05.03 – 01.05.2022
Eu era gases puro, ar, espaço vazio, tempo.
01.05.2022 – …
These gradual changes allow for interactions between the works themselves and the space, modulating intensities to render visible the mutability that circulates inside the engines of practices.
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Lichen is a prize for emerging curators, established by CIAP platform for contemporary art and the department of Curatorial Studies at KASK School of Arts to foster and support curatorial experimentation in Belgium. With the support of the Flemish Community, the City of Genk, and the CIAP members.
