Glean

Hugo Roelandt at M HKA

Glean 7, Spring 2025

Review by Barbara De Coninck

You won’t believe your eyes when you see it, but it really is true. In a huge shed at the Boel shipyards in Hoboken, Antwerp, a bus dangles from giant cables. Welders are creating fireworks and the sparks are flying. No, the bus is not empty. With the help of a bridge crane with a lifting capacity of 450 tons, twenty passengers are lifted from the ground. They turn out to be participants in Boel Project (1985), a post-performance piece by a little-known Antwerp artist who was active from the (…)

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