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S.M.A.K. Museum "From the Collection | Poetic Faith" closed until April 20

S.M.A.K. closes its doors until and including 20 April 2020. All activities are being postponed or cancelled until further notice about the state of affairs.

What does the coronavirus Covid-19 mean for our museum?

The museum and its personnel care about you and your health and increase the measures in the fight against the spreading of the coronavirus.

The exhibitions and all events within the walls of S.M.A.K. are cancelled until and including 20 April 2020.

It is our task to protect especially #people with a weaker health. By limiting physical contact we can slow down the spread of the virus and protect the weakest.
Do not be anxious, but let’s act all together – from a certain distance - out of care for and for the protection of each other.

Certainly do watch out for the newsletter and social media of S.M.A.K. for information about the programme and the opening hours for the coming weeks and for new dates for the activities which are cancelled for the moment.

From the Collection | Poetic Faith

08.02 until 10.05.2020

 

A person can never perceive truth and fiction at the same time. But there is such a thing as ‘poetic faith’ or the ‘suspension of disbelief’. This is a mechanism in our brains that automatically triggers a temporary suspension of our belief in rational, perceptible reality, thereby allowing us to believe in the fiction we encounter at that moment. Indeed, whilst reading a novel or watching a film, we ‘believe’ in the story, however implausible it might seem. ‘Poetic faith’ is considered an essential ingredient for storytelling of any kind.

Many art forms are, by definition, fictitious. That is why they require an act of ‘poetic faith’ or the ‘suspension of disbelief’. Unlike literature, poetry, theatre and film, contemporary visual art is frequently based on a non-linear chronology. Moreover, it also involves elaborate forms of abstraction and conceptualisation, which hinders the ‘suspension of disbelief’.

The exhibition ‘Poetic Faith’ can be seen as a tribute to the power of, and belief in, the imagination. It challenges us to set aside the faith we place in our own (rational) reality, thereby allowing us to perceive ‘impossible’ artworks as ‘perfectly possible’ at first sight.

With work by Shikh Sabbir Alam, Marie Cloquet, Leo Copers, Hanne Darboven, Markus Degerman, Joseph Grigely, Jorge Macchi, Bruce Nauman, Navid Nuur, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Mandla Reuter, Jason Rhoades, Gil Shachar, Nedko Solakov, Birde Vanheerswynghels, Jan Van Imschoot, Tamara Van San and Philippe Van Snick.

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