28.09-12.01.25: Heavy Air - Tom Hallet & Antonia Brown (Netwerk Aalst)
Heavy Air is a duo exhibition that brings together the distinct yet thematically resonant practices of Tom Hallet, former M‑Resident, and Antionia Brown, who performerd in last-years OTG project ‘The Dinner’. In addition to drawings, performances, and texts, both artists work with sculpture, using organic and found materials that evolve over space and time.
Informed by personal experiences and a shared interest in themes like death, decay, loss, transformation, and transfiguration, Brown and Hallet approach their work with a research-driven perspective. They exploration spans cosmic and natural realms, incorporating elements from mythology, medieval symbolism, gossip, rumors, oral traditions, forgotten stories, and magical thinking. Central to their practices is a focus on queer embodiment and corporeality.
The exhibition’s title, borrowed from Anne Boyer’s text on capitalism and the politics of air, transforms air into a symbol of change and commonality. In times when even the air we breathe is imbued with struggle, Heavy Air envisions it as a dynamic space of resistance, sound, movement, life, and death — a realm where ideas take flight, angels dwell, storms brew and fires spread.
On Saturday, November 30, from 1 to 6 pm, Antonia Brown will present a performance featuring Cantate Domino choir, made in collaboration with Ssaliva (François Boulanger).