Conflict Room #39: "Body Fluids"
Conflict Room is an exhibition space at the Turnhoutsebaan in Borgerhout, Antwerp. They showed different artist every week during three months. They work around conflict and this was uttered in different ways: for example in the work tself or in the communication to the public. Due to the fact Conflict Room has a big store window, there is a difference between the visitors going inside and the passers-by that also see what happens and form a personal opinion. Through the weekly change of artists in the space these fields get investigated and from time to time certain sensitivities are discovered.

The exhibition "Body Fluids" is a visual reasearch into the body and the way it is used by the tree artists. Liv Bugge uses human hair in her totemized installation and refers to the revearsed healing process, sometimes used in extreme situations of war and lack of real surgery tools. In the film "Social Movement" Emily Roysdon shows an anti-aesthetic world where she investigates the border between private and public body and how this concept visually changes. Johanna Kirsch made photographs where her body is a human reference with obstacles she finds on trips (an abandoned boat, a carpark,...).

For this exhibition a text was written after the show and sent by email to all visitors. they had the opportunity to leave there addresses in the space. This text can be downloaded here.

Participating artists: Emily Roysdon (USA), Liv Bugge (Norway) and Johanna Kirsch (Austria).

Curator: Alan Quireyns