ODE DE KORT - BBBB ITES OF OOTS
OPENING: SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 2024 - from 3pm to 8pm

"SpazioA is proud to present on Saturday, September 21, 2024, BBBB ITES OF OOTS, Ode de Kort’s fourth solo show at the gallery. The artist will presents a new body of works in the project space."

"BBBB ITES OF OOTS can be read as a visual, sculptural and performative search for an absurd in-between space between that which is flat, empty or full. In BBBB ITES OF OOTS a black rubber boot discovers, produces and questions its own grammar. It (RRRR)prints, (RRRR)peats, (RRRR)hearses, (RRRR)moves and (RRRR)boots. While faltering, stuttering and repeating, the BBBB or BOOT or OOT searches its way between letters, sounds, words and verbs for its own shape or body. By constantly repeating its own shape, an absurd feedback loop of sounds, movements and meanings is created. Between these BBBB ITES OF OOTS two parentheses ( ) move. ( ) zooms in and out and twists and turns. As a scenographic co-performer, ( ) animates both space, our looking and thinking.

Ode de Kort (b. 1992, Malle, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp. Solo and two person exhibitions: ( ), Una boccata d’arte, curated by Giovanni Rendina, Otricoli, IT (2024); Twofold (duo show with Carlos Caballero), BLANCO, Ghent, BE (2021); A ST’OCK(ING) OF F’OOT N’OTES, De Warande, Turnhout, BE (2021); LL, J, with a performance of Evelin Brosi & Elvis Bonier,Vitrine, NICC, Antwerpen, BE (2020); UU TWOO, curated by Sara Giannini, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL (2019); TWOO UU, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT (2019); O froooom O toooo O, Panache Towers, Antwerp, BE (2017); O froooom O toooo O, SpazioA Gallery, Pistoia, IT (2017); Suspension of a circle, curated by Wim Waelput, Hopsteet Gallery (window), Brussels, BE (2016). Preposition, with Martijn Grootten, Tique Gallery, Antwerp, BE (2015); Fold/Unfold, SpazioA project space, Pistoia, IT (2015); Frozen Movement, Galerie OMS Pradhan, Brussels, BE (2014). Group exhibitions: Rhizome, Network Without Center Point, curated by Seolhui Lee, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK (2023); IV4: Leila Bordreuil, Michael Speers & Ode de Kort, presented by les ateliers claus and iv-in vitro, les ateliers claus, Brussels, BE (2023); RBB B BRR, De Nor, sculpture and venue made by Antwerp artist Dennis Tyfus, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, BE (2022); Universal Exports – Summer exhibition, Universal Exptorts, Antwerp, BE (2022); Presque Rien, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE (2019); The Gulf Between, De Warande, Turnhout BE (2019); Therefore, everything is light, curated by Stéphanie Vandenecker, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent, BE (2018); La Lama di Procopio, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Casso, IT (2017); Inhabited by Objects, a dialogue with the house of Jean Prouvé, CAB Contemporary, Brussels, BE (2016); Angst Essen die Seele Auf, FH Bielefeld, Germany, DE (2014); Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT (2014)."