Out of Place

Izabel Angerer, Tina Gillen, Loreta Visic, Penny Siopis & Katharina Feint
'Out of Place' presents the work of five foreign women. The subject for the exhibition leads to a workplace project and is linked to te research of 'mobility', starting from the notion of 'displacement'. Generations of immigrants colour the faces of communities such as in Genk. Our orientation and movement in the world is often based on searching for a 'home'... But what is strange for some is common for others; a stranger feeling at home in a far country..; a local feeling strange in his own country. 'Out of Place' explores the tensions and the relativity of 'closeness' and 'distancing'. From five different perspectives they point out how the 'other' and the 'self' can be influenced by a movement or intention. What are the decisive external motors and how does the aspect of movement reside in the mind?