Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) is an artist of singular complexity. Born in 1951 in Antwerp, where she still lives and works, she has been active since the 1970s as a visual artist, graphic designer and performer. She has always been a pioneer. She should, first and foremost, be considered an artist for the future. AMVK’s practice is truly interdisciplinary.

    M HKA wants to introduce Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven to a wider audience as an innovator of forms and interpreter of moods - as oxygen of the whole society.

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    Bruikleen M HKA van Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg/De Vleeshal, image: (c) M HKA
    Concept of Anxiety, 1993
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Mixed Media

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven adapts two books of fabric samples. On each patch she combines a drawing of a woman in a voluptuous, seductive pose with such words as: ‘action’ or ‘conduire le mental’. These images of naked pin-ups are combined with concepts from widely diverse contexts, such as advanced technology, anatomy or psychology. The connection between the words and the images, which appear to have nothing in common, disrupts the usual and familiar meaning of these words and images.

    'A' words on the textile samples:

    absoluut
    abstract
    absurd
    action
    actuality
    adam
    affect
    age
    alteration
    ambiguity
    angels
    annihilatie
    animal
    an sich
    anxiety
    art

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