Nature Morte / Nature Vivante  24.11.2019 - 08.03.2020

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From the 17th century onwards, the French expression nature morte (literally ‘dead nature’) has been used to refer to still life, the field of painting that represented nature – flowers, fruit, fish, game, or various objects of use – through symbolic and allegorical meanings that explicitly referred to its fragility and ephemerality, and indirectly also to the vanity of human life.

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Today, in the dark perspective in which we live, where the unjustified action of man is contributing to the impermanence of nature – or even to its annihilation – the term nature morte takes on even greater relevance.

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The works on display at CID au Grand-Hornu question, provoke or encourage those mechanisms that nature uses to support its transformation, aggregation, decomposition and then regeneration, creating a collection of experimental works that highlights the ambiguous and contradictory relationship between man and nature.

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Nature Morte / Nature Vivante curated by Ralph Collier, Françoise Foulon & Veerle Wenes with Alexi Williams Wynn, Andrea Branzi, Ani Liu, Anne Ausloos​, Ariel Schlesinger, Arvid & Marie, Babs Decruyenaere, Bas Smets & Wannes Peremans, Benjamin Verdonck, Diana Scherer, Eline Willemarck, Elissa Lacoste, Erez Nevi Pana, Erine Wyckmans, Formafantasma, Gabriel Rico, Hilde De Decker, Hongjie Yang, Jean-Philippe Tromme, Lieve Van Stappen, Lilla Tabasso, Lois Weinberger, Maarten Van den Eynde, Marlène Huissoud, Michel Blazy, Nel Verbeke, Nurit Bar-Shai, Octave Vandeweghe, Roland Persson, Scholten & Baijings , Studio Klarenbeek & Dros et Atelier Luma Arles, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet, Studio Wieki Somers, Tania De Bruycker, Tony Matelli, Various Artists, Vincent Egon Verschueren, Xandra Van Der Eijk

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CID - Centre d'innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu

Rue Sainte-Louise, 82 
7301 Hornu - Belgique

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Pictures by Ligia Poplawska