Wor(ld)k In Progress?

Brussels-based artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx is having her first large-scale exhibition at the contemporary art centre WIELS. With Wor(ld)k In Progress? she traces the contours of art and catches them into the ephemeral perspective of her own process of creating. Her work shows how the time and space of painting is more complex than its frame. Exploring her subjects (lines, points, forms, floating figures…) as inexhaustibly new givens, multiplying the originals, and effacing the clues and bearings – gravity, weight, balance, on and off camera – of such historically defined practices as sculpture, painting, or cinema, she makes WIELS resound with themes and notions that refuse all closure.