Seasons in Hell

“’I have never belonged to this people;
I have never been a Christian; I am of the race that sang under torture; laws I have never understood;
I have no moral sense, I am a brute: you are making a mistake.’
Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast […]”

Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s extended poem in prose originally entitled A Season in Hell (Une Saison en Enfer, 1873), Kendell Geers clearly refers, with the title of the exhibition, to the bleakness of present perspectives. Seasons in Hell was triggered by the recent events in Europe ranging from the Greek economic and the refugee crises to the terror attacks in Paris and the lockdown of Brussels.

Through the intentional spelling difference that the plural of Seasons means, he also brings together politics and nature and raises awareness for the long-lasting negative effects of global directions on the seasons.

The exhibition features new drawings, watercolours, photo and bronze masks related to different series entitled Flesh of the Spirit, Age of Iron, SacredScaredScarred.