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Robert Hitzeman: StoneLicker Dessins

Robert cropped

25th January – 16th February 2017

Le Hic Brussels is pleased to present a new series of drawings by Robert Hitzeman from his StoneLickers series as well as his sculpture Sweet Dredge exhibited installed throughout the space. Le Hic will also host the publication Floor and Ceiling: 3rd Edition a Photo-zine dedicated to Robert’s Floor and Ceiling photographs and designed by Michal Kozlowski. Robert Hizeman’s work uses visual languages to subtly disrupt readings of interior and exterior in the body and the built environment, as well as examining the relationships between ideology and the physical conditions of space. The idea of the subtle abjection; a way of transgressing the viewer quietly, is a central theme to his work. He is interested in how a transgressive force can appear seductive benign or comical but still disturbing on another level: subverting traditional separations between attraction and repulsion. “Stonelickers” are a series that include several works relating to parasitic relationships, feeding or mating and their potential as a model for artistic production and cultural exchange. The drawings for this permutation of the series are based on images of the mouth and teeth of several species of Lamprey, a parasitic fish and several models of angle grinder bits used in stone and metal work. Lamprey comes from the latin lampetra, which translates roughly as “stone licker” (lambere “to lick” + petra “stone”). In sculpture, Robert’s work is made from assembling building materials gathered from a particular area; creating a link from that area’s history to a totemic object or artifact

that connects it to the present while questioning notions of location. “Sweet dredge” is another take on this idea, using animal remains gathered from the Thames at the site of a former meat processing plant and colorful rope. The area directly above the river now houses a rock climbing wall and gym built on the foundation of the meatpacking district. Robert is interested in linking the gym’s conception of the body as a malleable object to be conditioned or changed to the “processing” of animal remains into meat; both systems that attempt to alter the original into a state that conforms to a normative ideal.

The Exhibition will be open from 25th January until the 16th February 2017.

Get there: Le Hic Rue de Rodenbach 51, 1190 Brussels
Tram lines 3-4-51 stop Albert/Berkendaal
Bus 48 et 54 stop Albert Tram 92 stop Darwin
Opening times: Monday to Saturday 10 to 18:30

For Further information: info@lehic.be +32 465 594 216

Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman: Of The Hand That Point Out, Of Fingers That See

of-the-hand
16th-18th December 2016
Preview: Friday 16th December 2016, 7pm, gig from 8pm
Saturday 17th December 2016, 12-5pm and Sunday 18th December 2016, 12-4pm

“Maybe I have written to see; to have what I never would have had; so that having would be the privilege not of the takes and encloses, of the gullet, of the gut; but of the hand that points out, of fingers that see, that design, from the tips of the fingers that transcribe by the sweet dictates of vision. From the point of view of the soul’s eye: the eye of a womansoul.” – Helene Cixous

We have to live in the future. Anyone practicing politics that goes against the current socio-economic nightmare* is practicing the future. They live in the future, by desire and by necessity. We have to start somewhere. We have to start with the micro.

So what are the gestures of our collective desired future? If language isn’t working for us, can we use our bodies? How can we communicate trust and solidarity to one another through our bodily language? How can we include contradiction within our gestures? Attempt to cover the distance that is perceived and experienced of difference? Include complexity? Seepage and slippage? Overflowing subjectivity? A sense of humour?

Gestures are conceived through metaphor. Bodies signifying, expressing. Therefore we cannot decontextualise movement and we are unwilling to separate discourse and materiality, language and embodiment. Bodies give permission. They alternate power. They co-author. They use shared and marginalised history. They follow desire lines. They identify with the past and with the present. They assemble. They have to unlearn. They change.

“There is a body wherever there is resistance. But their potential to speak is waiting to be mined.”
– Zsuzsanna Soboslay Moore

Of The Hand That Points Out, Of Fingers That See will be a collection of works in progress by Sophie Chapman, Kerri Jefferis and others.

Sara Willett: City Kaleidoscope

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22nd October – 5th November 2016

At the end of a five week residency in Beijing at the invitation of Being 3 Gallery, Lewisham Arthouse Studio Member Sara Willett presented a solo show of paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation entitled City Kaleidoscope. View images here: www.sarawillett.com

Being 3 Gallery, Caochangdi, Beijing, China
22nd October – 5th November 2016

“it was quick but fun”, speed selected by Jeremy Deller

27th May – 5th June 2016
Preview Friday 27th May 2016, 6-9 pm

“it was quick but fun”, speed selected by Jeremy Deller

We are very pleased to present an exhibition of work by 29 Lewisham Art House studio members selected by Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller. Visiting each studio in turn, a piece of work was selected for the show without the studio artist being present.

Opening night:
Friday 27th May 2016, 6-9 pm
As part of South London Art Map Last Fridays as well as the opening of Brockley Max Arts Festival.

Exhibition continues:
28th May – 5th June 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm
Free entry
Step-free access

Open Studios
Saturday 4th June 2016, 12-8 pm
Sunday 5th June 2016, 12-6 pm

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