Komplot

Curiouser and curiouser

In collaboration with LuCi (Luca Moving Image Collective) 

KOMPLOT Brussels  Place du Conseil 4 Raadsplein, 1070, Anderlecht

Part of the How To Be Many Over and Over Again Series

Curated by Max Ferguson and Emily Walter in dialogue with Camille Van Meenen 

Opening on Wednesday 29.01.25, 18:00-22:00

Exhibition open from January 30th until February 1st 2025

Open conversation with artists and curators: 1.02, 14:00-16:00 

Links / LuCi / Amber Dooms / Albina Gaitova / Che Go Eun / Ella Schoning 

Komplot invites LuCi moving image collective for a carte blanche as part of their series How To Be Many Over and Over Again and they are bringing you a three-day exhibition. Curated by two collective members Max Ferguson and Emily Walter, the exhibition presents work by young makers Amber Dooms, Albina Gaitova, Che Go Eun and Ella Schöning. 

Curiouser and curiouser is Alice’s enduring cry after her descent into the rabbit hole. Curiouser and curiouser is the arrival of womanhood with the scent of bodies blossoming into fragrant decay. Curiouser and curiouser is the digital elasticity of the imagined body, falling in and out of step with the whimsy of the mind.

Curiouser and curiouser invites bodies to take form in all their vulgarity, softness and familiarity.

How to Be Many Over and Over Again, also curated by Ferguson and Walter, is a series of nomadic screenings and exhibitions of student films across Brussels. The curators aim to give a second life to work by students and recent graduates by integrating their work into Brussels’ cultural programming. Ferguson and Walter present the city as a playground for new voices in the audiovisual field because of its chimerical qualities and see it as a starting point for many students working with moving image. 

The project takes student films outside the school environment and encourages deeper engagement with the city’s cultural landscape. Over the course of a year, they collaborate and are planning to collaborate with several Brussels cultural institutions, organising multiple exhibitions and screenings across Brussels, resulting in nomadic and interconnected programming. 

For the first edition, How to Be Many Over and Over Again found its temporary home in De Markten for an exhibition of video and sound installations by Lisa Longworth, Niko Wei, and Maurice Luijten. For the second edition, a screening took place at Cinema RITCS with six non-graduation film essays from RITCS and LUCA, by Arshvir Singh Sewa, Gina Mercelis Lukas Serwir, Annebelle Baete, Maura De Troyer and Ellis De Maeyer, focusing on exploration, observation and experimentation.

The project has so far been supported by Auguste Orts, a Brussels production and distribution platform for film and video led by artists Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq and Fairuz Ghammam; De Markten; STUVO; LUCA School of Arts; RITCS Cinema. How to Be Many Over and Over Again stems from the public programme of Herman Asselberghs’ exhibition Time Wasted, which was on view at argos centre for audiovisual arts. 

ABOUT

AMBER DOOMS  Amber Stefanie Dooms is a Master student of Photography at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Her work is inspired by the fantasy world that exists in our subconsciousness. She converts her own fictional and non-fictional stories into images or film. Like her identity, these stories blur the lines between what is real and non-existent.

ALBINA GAITOVA  Albina Gaitova is a 24-year-old filmmaker and audiovisual artist based in Brussels, recently graduated with an Audiovisual Arts degree from LUCA School of Arts. Throughout her academic journey, Albina focuses on the ways in which authentic human emotions can be captured through film. In her filmic work, Albina works centrally with improvised dialogue in order to create relatable, genuine interactions between characters. 

CHE GO EUN  Che Go Eun, based in Seoul & Brussels, works with the identity of painting, female narratives, and technology. She explores the juxtaposition of how painting expands through digital technologies alongside how female narratives are depicted and expanded in contemporary society.

ELLA SCHÖNING  Ella Schöning is a multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing her MFA at KASK Ghent. She blends media such as video, soundscapes, ceramics, installations, performance, and painting into unified artworks that immerse viewers into her world. Her installations are vibrant peculiar collages of an unknown, surreal land brought together in one space. In her own words, Schöning crafts “healing tales for adults, offering lessons wrapped in imagination and gentleness”.

LuCi MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIVE  LuCi is a new collective formed by current students and alumni from LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Initially formed as a cinema club, the five founding members quickly encountered a real need for a student- and new graduate-run community focused on forming a bridge between art school students and cultural organisations in Brussels. Thus, over the last year, LuCi has reformed from a cinema club into a cinema collective which places Brussels as the setting for varied encounters between students, artists and cultural workers with the moving image in all its forms. Currently, LuCi is 10 members strong and has undertaken collaborations with Brussels-based organisations such as Bozar, Cinema RITCS, Recyclart, Cinemaximiliaan, De Markten and Auguste Orts. The collaboration with Auguste Orts is highlighted as a prime example of how LuCi would like to conduct their collaborations. LuCi was brought in to programme student films for How to Be Many Over and Over Again which sprung from the public programme of Herman Asselberghs’ exhibition Time Wasted which ran from March to June 2024 at argos centre for audiovisual arts.