MINIMAL PROCESSES OF CHANGE

04.09 – 29.11.2026

Danae Io, Dóra Maurer, Margaret Raspé, Marie-Françoise Plissart
Curated by Alicja Melzacka 

Opening on Thursday 03.09.2026, 18:00-21:00
 

This exhibition presents works by Danae Io, Dóra Maurer, Marie-Françoise Plissart and Margaret Raspé, who frame and sequence daily life through self-constructed image-making devices. Formally and procedurally rigorous, their works also embrace contingency and the interference of everyday realities into the frame. Having a structure in the first place allows for instances of slippage, where the frame does not hold.

Within today’s culture, which privileges speed and immediacy, the strong pull of these works stems from their concern with mediation, as seen in the artists’ experiments with photographic and moving-image technologies, often using their bodies as machine-like extensions. While they draw on the artists’ immediate environments, the works are not autobiographical; rather, they question the narrative unity of biography.

No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic.
                              —Yvonne Rainer, No Manifesto, 1965


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Exhibition open on Friday and Saturday 14:00-18:00
and by appointment at info@sb34.org

The exhibition is on view at SB34 concorde and continues at SB34 The Pool, where a selection of films by Dora Maurer is presented. The two locations are about 15 minutes walk apart and follow the same opening hours.

Nocturne on Thursday 10.09, 17:00-21:00
Exhibition open on Fri. 11 - Sat. 12 & Sun. 13.09.2026, 14:00-18:00
Focus Day Uptown / Guided tour by curator on Sunday 13.09, 11:00
during RendezVous - Brussels Art Week

SB34 concorde
Rue de la Concorde, 16 
1050 — Ixelles

SB34 The Pool
Rue Saint-Bernard, 34
1060 — Saint-Gilles