By moving into the Chantier 109, La Station changes its environment to take over these former refrigerated slaughterhouses, a place inhabited by its history of life and death. This new space opens its doors with an exhibition entitled Ecotone, which will feature a monographic project in the main room and a collective setup in the circulation gallery. These two spaces will be filled with the idea of creating a large wild bestiary that would, in this place, act as a sort of revenge on the animals.
The ecotone is this transition area between two adjacent ecological communities: a space common to both the wild and the domestic. The term comes from the Greek words oikos (house/living environment) and tonos (tone/tension): a place where ecologies are in tension. It is also the transitional boundary between two different ecosystems, the place where vegetations intermingle.
This exhibition will be built around a proposal by Michaël Dans, a 37-year-old Belgian artist, draftsman, sculptor, and sometimes joker, and a collective exhibition bringing together artists of different ages and reputations in a large gallery of natural history and not-so-natural stories… The entire exhibition will be “overseen” by the figure of Joseph Beuys, with a screening during the opening night of Helmut Wietz’s film, documenting the 1974 performance I Like America and America Likes Me: a face-to-face between the artist and the coyote.
