The freedom to be ourselves in our deviations, our slowness, our limitations, our lust for life 

The first group exhibition in the ‘triangular prism’ staircase of the Becue takes five artists up to ricochet and cascade. Their works are precise and all over the place. 

Who are the agents of our freedom: we, or the days of acceleration we live in that bleach our rhythm? What obstructs our freedom, the repressive structures that surround us, or we who can´t escape? When acceleration is capitalist, how can we be fast? How can we be slow?

In his short story ‘The Second Bakery Attack’, Haruki Murakami offers a critique of free will, contrasting it with an inherent self-affirming conviction that allows the protagonist to act as if he had neither doubts nor ethics. The opening lines:

I´m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then, it might not have been a question of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

This fast story full of joy and desperation is the inspiration and script that is deconstructed and refueled with artistic interventions for ´The Second Bakery Attack´, a programme organised and curated by Marie De Broeck and Friedrich Trost, in collaboration with Erro Rasker and Becue, on Saturday 18 April 14-20h. This first one of the activations of ´Fast Degrees of Freedom´ (more to be confirmed) marks the opening of a second chapter to the exhibition, with Erro Rasker adding his intervention.

Alessandra Craba

Erro Rasker (from 18 April)

Fritz & His Monkey

Gabriel Richard

Luis Campos

Invited by Jesse van Winden, in collaboration with Fritz Albas

Becue, 10 April – 17 May 2026
On appointment and during activations

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