Medusa is a non-profit nomadic collective based in Brussels that aims to stimulate cultural exchanges and promote new emerging artists. Serving as a platform, Medusa’s main objective is to provide the means upon which new conceptions within the current cultural landscape can flourish. Medusa strongly believes that artistic innovations emerge through dialogue, cross-over and collaboration.

 
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Medusa is currently run by Tim Evers, Saskia Smith, Egon Moles Le Bailly & Lisa De Meyer. Anna De Wandeler is their legal advisor. Medusa was founded by Sacha Verleyen & Noa Verkeyn.

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Chloé Arrouy’s (FR, 1993) sculptural practice is based on an experimental approach to traditional metalworking techniques. The objects she makes often refer to medieval societies and their abundant production of disturbing forms. Through the manipulation of signs from different Western cultural contexts, she questions the paradoxes these symbols hold, whereupon new fields for experimentation come into being. Between sensuality and austerity, innocence and infamy, her practice pushes her to explore the empathic power of forms and their capacity to provoke a physical sensations — often that of pain. The universe she conjures up resonates with the realms of witchcraft, torture, but also of BDSM and adolescence — all of which are propitious territories that evoke her relationship to existence, sexuality and culture. Beyond the veil of reappropriating symbols, dynamics of revalorization lie at the heart of her practice: the materials used are for a large part the a direct resurgence of obsolete domestic objects. For this exhibition, Chloé is thinking in collaboration with composer Dennis Meersman. They have been creating their work through back and forth interactions to collectively spawn a scenery of occult ambience.

Dennis Meersman (BE, 1996) is a Belgian composer. Operating from Brussels, he is mostly known under the moniker Diony Lake. For his composition, written for the joint work with Chloé Arrouy, Dennis works around several motifs with a sound palette consisting of orchestral instruments, digital synthesis the human voice — namely, that of his own and that of his father, Marc Meersman.