Chloë Bass's The Parts (2021) is on view at the COME CLOSER exhibition at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, through September 29, 2024. Bass's performance work, 9 Parts, is also featured in the exhibition.
Middelheim Museum's press release follows:
With COME CLOSER, Middelheim Museum and DE SINGEL international arts centre jointly explore the space between sculpture and performance art. This collaboration gathers international artists that show works in a variety of forms: installations and performances.
In COME CLOSER, the participating artists all make room for new relations between artist, artwork and audience. An exciting exchange and connection replaces the traditional distance between the three. Sculptures in bronze and stone go through the same living processes as the bodies of performers. Spectators help to create the artwork. Artists replace the object on the pedestal with a living body. Sculptures are changeable, fluid even.
The manner in which objects in museums are categorized, preserved, and presented is evolving. As well is the role of the spectator who is not solely involved at the end of the artistic process. COME CLOSER shows that artists today continue to push the boundaries of where the artwork begins and ends.
