Komplot
Curiouser and curiouser
29.01—01.02.2025
Exhibition, Group show, Public programme
Amber Dooms, Che Go Bun, Albina Gaitova, Ella Schöning
Komplot invites LuCi moving image collective for a carte blanche as part of their series How to Be Many Over and Over Again and they are bringing you something that is Curiouser and curiouser.
LuCi is a new collective formed by current students and alumni from LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Initially formed as a cinema club, the five founding members quickly encountered a real need for a student- and new graduate-run community focused on forming a bridge between art school students and cultural organisations in Brussels. Thus, over the last year, LuCi has reformed from a cinema club into a cinema collective which places Brussels as the setting for varied encounters between students, artists and cultural workers with the moving image in all its forms.
Currently, LuCi is 10 members strong and has undertaken collaborations with Brussels-based organisations such as Bozar, Cinema RITCS, Recyclart, Cinemaximiliaan, De Markten and Auguste Orts. The collaboration with Auguste Orts is highlighted as a prime example of how LuCi would like to conduct their collaborations. LuCi was brought in to programme student films for How to Be Many Over and Over Again which sprung from the public programme of Herman Asselberghs' exhibition Time Wasted which ran from March to June 2024 at argos centre for audiovisual arts.
Curiouser and curiouser is Alice’s enduring cry after her descent into the rabbit hole. Curiouser and curiouser is the arrival of womanhood with the scent of bodies blossoming into fragrant decay. Curiouser and curiouser is the digital elasticity of the imagined body, falling in and out of step with the whimsy of the mind.
Curiouser and curiouser invites bodies to take form in all their vulgarity, softness and familiarity.
About the artists
Amber Dooms is a Master student of Photography at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Her work is inspired by the fantasy world that exists in our subconsciousness. She converts her own fictional and non-fictional stories into images or film. Like her identity, these stories blur the lines between what is real and non-existent.
Albina Gaitova is a 24-year-old filmmaker and audiovisual artist based in Brussels, recently graduated with an Audiovisual Arts degree from LUCA School of Arts. Throughout her academic journey, Albina focuses on the ways in which authentic human emotions can be captured through film. In her filmic work, Albina works centrally with improvised dialogue in order to create relatable, genuine interactions between characters.
Che Go Eun, based in Seoul & Brussels, works with the identity of painting, female narratives, and technology. She explores the juxtaposition of how painting expands through digital technologies alongside how female narratives are depicted and expanded in contemporary society.
Ella Schöning is a multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing her MFA at KASK Ghent. She blends media such as video, soundscapes, ceramics, installations, performance, and painting into unified artworks that immerse viewers into her world. Her installations are vibrant peculiar collages of an unknown, surreal land brought together in one space. In her own words, Schöning crafts “healing tales for adults, offering lessons wrapped in imagination and gentleness”.
Public programme
01.02.2025
14:00 - 16:00 Talk with artists and curators
On February 1st, the last day of the exhibition, the three curators and two of the artists will be present in the exhibition space for some casual mingling. Come to hang out with Amber Dooms, Albina Gaitova, Emily Walter, Max Ferguson & Camille Van Meenen and chat with them about their process and the works in the exhibition.
Friday, March 28
WORKSHOP LUCI X LEVEL FIVE BLUESCREEN
On invitation by LuCi and Komplot, Blue Screen (Emma van der Put & Alasdair Asmussen Doyle) held a workshop at Level Five, with the artist of the exhibition. During a productive session of discussion and sharing the process of making the films, they looked into each of the individual practices, the curatorial selection made by LuCi, as well as reflecting on the different mode of presenting these moving image works within different contexts.