Limits to despair / No limits to hope

Limits to Despair / No Limits to Hope, on view at Meessen, Brussels, brings together six artists exploring contemporary pathologies and the role of art amidst turmoil. The exhibition features works that engage with themes of limits and exile, both from one's country and from oneself, creating a dialogue between pieces that are at times stark and at others hopeful.

Featured artists include Taysir Batniji, whose series "Homeless Colors" uses found materials for a meditative exercise reflecting on personal and collective grief. André Romão's "Madrugada" uses a bronze hand and bells to symbolize alarm and vigilance. Stéphanie Saadé's works, such as "Building a Home with Time" and "Artificial Nostalgia," delve into personal history, displacement, and the disorientation of confinement. Céline Cuvelier's watercolors depict domestic spaces linked to infanticide, questioning societal perception of images and the unrepresentable. Chaim van Luit's "Concrete Faith, Fragile Minds" is an installation of glass shards on cement, exploring themes of protection and spiritual interpretation. Hanna Dubey's paintings offer dualistic visions of creation and apocalypse, while Romão's "The Rings of Saturn" presents a weeping Christ figure, inviting ambivalent interpretations of beauty and sorrow.