We are pleased that gallery artist Roberta Gigante takes part in the exhibition As Close As That, presented at M HKA (INBOX) and NICC (Nick Lodgers). The project, curated by Luk Lambrecht and Lieze Eneman, runs from 7 January to 7 February 2021 in the museum’s upper‐floor spaces.
With works by Lazara Rosell Albear, Roberta Gigante, Hans Haacke, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Elisabeth Ida Mulyani, Beat Streuli and Albert Oehlen.
Art resembles a natural cycle: it moves itself, influences its beholder, and produces images that help us rise above uncertainty. In an era of dislocation, art can become a refuge — an anchor between our inner world and shared existence. Encountering beauty — rooted in life and relation — offers a positive mental counterweight to turbulence.
Today, art fragments into countless particles drifting in a boundless “cloud.” Celebrated oeuvres can fade, supplanted by new ones; older works risk being dismissed as no longer “serviceable” to the art market.
As Close As That is a modest, intimate presentation across three rooms on M HKA’s upper floor: close in scale, attentive to detail, yet world-oriented in scope.
In the context of our current times — when public space is reshaped by social distancing, when digital life surges, when individualism strains communal bonds — this exhibition probes the tension between our personal lives and modes of coexistence.
