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Valerie Verhack, Gerard Herman, Shelly Nadashi

Conversation Piece

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14/01/2016 –
– 30/11

For this Conversation Piece, 1646 invited curator Valerie Verhack to compile an evening inspired by and engaging with the current show by Shelly Nadashi.

For this event she has chosen to invite Antwerp based artist Gerard Herman to present a puppet theatre performance in which his interests in language, absurdist humour, traditional folk music and theatre are key.

After the performance there was an informal talk between Valerie Verhack and Gerard Herman.

The work of the Belgian artist Gerard Herman (1989) is difficult to categorize in a single genre or medium. Generally speaking, his everyday life and environment form the starting point of his graphic work, installations, performances, audio compositions, animated films, and radio broadcasts. By using his native language and the requisite dose of comedy, his works appear to offer bite-sized responses to human experiences like failure and success. And yet, these answers are not definitive: each work is merely an impulse that may generate further meanings.

Valerie Verhack is assistant curator at Museum M in Leuven, Belgium. She is also an editorial member of Le Salon, an online platform aimed at presenting, documenting and reflecting on the Brussels contemporary art scene (www.welcometolesalon.be). Interested in both contemporary art and the historical avant-garde, she worked as a coordinator at the Vanhaerents Art Collection and as a curator at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels.

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About Shelly Nadashi: Nadashi (1981, Israel) completed her studies at The School for Visual Theatre in Jerusalem Nadashi, and subsequently moved to Glasgow in 2007 in pursuit of a Master of Fine Art degree at The Glasgow School of Art. Her work has recently been presented at the New Museum Triennial, New York (2015); Gallery Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2015); Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2014); Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels (2014); Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013), Sotoso, Brussels (2013); Performa Biennial, New York (2011); and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2011). Next year she will present a new work as part of Manifesta 11 in Zurich.

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