Dries van Elke – Riverheads

En 2025, Dries van Elke a remporté le Prix Hugo Roelandt avec son projet de fin d’études au sein de la formation Graphisme libre et dessin à l’Académie royale des Beaux-Arts d’Anvers. Le M HKA l’invite à réaliser une présentation INBOX, visible pendant Antwerp Art Weekend.

We often think of nature as the evercaring mother, and the rivers as the streams of love and nurture. But mothers are never perfect, that’s why we are truly able to love them.

Rivers, to that extent, malevolent and sporadic — nothing kind about their existence. Often they decide what lives and what dies, and whoever is strong enough to get access to them will dominate.

River becomes a form of exclusion, a rupture, separating the banks and the inhabitants. Those blessed to be at the head will nurture on the clean drink, while those catching tails downstream will suffer from the microbes of the mouths of those who sipped the waters first. But exclusivity is unavoidable when it comes to mothers; if they had to share all their love between everybody, their children would ultimately be left unloved.

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Date: 01.05 – 24.05.2026
Preview: 30.04 pendant les noctures au M HKA
Lieu: M HKA INBOX
Adresse: M HKA Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

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