Opening: 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆

Thursday 24 April, 6–9 PM

Join us for the opening of 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, a group exhibition featuring works by Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar, and Reinier Vrancken.

When endured, waiting is akin to a lethargic state, a prolonged watch where everything seems to stand still. Inwardly, thoughts are racing, reality is being revised. After the hospital was evacuated from the Bijloke site in 1983, Het Paviljoen was used as a storage area. For many years, it lay dormant, out of sight and out of mind before being transformed in 2006 into an exhibition space, a vitrine for all to see, a glass stage. The works of Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar, and Reinier Vrancken speak to the tension and boundaries between exterior and interior, the outer shell and inner fullness. They disrupt the gestures of vision and the rhythm of one's perception, drawing attention to blind spots, to the periphery.

Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar, Reinier Vrancken I 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
Opening: 24th of April
24/04–11/05
(by appointment)
📍Het Paviljoen
Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent

𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 is part of Eye becomes water, an exhibition and public programme curated by Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Yasemin Köker, Temitayo Olalekan, and Jean Watt. Drawing from the history of Het Paviljoen, which served as the waiting room for pregnant patients at the historic Bijloke hospital, Eye becomes water explores waiting not as a passive or neutral act, but as one that engages multiple temporalities, bodily experiences, and power dynamics.

Curators: Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Yasemin Köker, Temitayo Olalekan and Jean Watt

Graphic design by Hana Kiani

This project is supported by KASK & Conservatorium and Curatorial Studies.