A World Seen Through by Jean Watt

Founded in 2015, 1M³ serves as an exhibition space for artists' books from the Kunstenbibliotheek collection. Each edition, a guest curator is invited to make a unique selection and present it within the 1M³ display cases.

When an unknown back door turns a vitrine into a window, or a square pierces empty pages to expose a text printed on their backs, our surroundings are revealed as ways to see the world through. Glimpses of the street can be caught between parked cars as the bus goes by, figures can be grasped in the nearly closed curtains of a living room. At the edges, and the ends, and the backs, and the gaps, there is a life in passing motion.

A World Seen Through is a guide towards these gaps, a selection made for ways of looking and hiding. Use these as your glasses, your binoculars, your telescopes, your windows, your doors, your cat flaps, your eyes cut through a newspaper, the bottom of your beer glass, the gaps in your fingers with your head in your hands. If you listen at the open window, the cars and birds are coming in.

Jean Watt is studying on the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK. She runs the site-specific curatorial project, A Place to Rest, situating artworks in unusual spaces.

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René Heyvaert Kunst is een tweesnijdend zwaard. Scheldewindeke : [s.n.], 1976

Vedran Kopljar The Misadventures of… s.l. : s.n., 2022

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