IN SITU: Bruno Zhu - Out
Event
M HKA, Antwerp
25 January 2025 - 11 May 2025
Bruno Zhu’s In Situ commission materializes an imposing set of revolving walls hung on the two central pillars in the exhibition space. Operating like two gears engaged in each other, the artist’s site-responsive passageway disrupts the open space, forcefully creating two separate zones. Polarised yet permeable, the two zones are intermittently connected since the central mechanism is designed to be pushed. Thus, what initially appears to be a severe division of the space is rather a rousing call to challenge it.
Out marks a major development in the artist’s study of politics of display. Having previously proposed licenseable spaces in response to a commissioning program and styled an institution as a jewellery box, Zhu’s In Situ commission consolidates architecture as a medium in a practice that spans fashion design, publishing and scenography. Out’s explicit confrontational quality is deceiving in its stubborn simplicity. Rather than upholding a binary worldview, it is an invitation to push through its walls to seek potential states of emergence. Movement invites negotiation, which in turn encourages exchange and transformation.