14 Emotions / Allegoria via dolorosa

This powerful work across 14 screens marked the beginning, in 2013, of the collaboration between painter-filmmaker Klaus Verscheure and SPECTRA. His video installation draws on the iconography of the traditional Stations of the Cross, stripped of its religious connotations. The Via Dolorosa becomes a metaphor for the sense of guilt imposed by religions — a mirror of contemporary society? Singer-songwriter Tom McRae composed the haunting soundtrack. In dialogue with manuscripts and prints from the Maurits Sabbe Library, and artworks from the Museum of Modern Religious Art (Koekelberg), a poetic journey unfolds through suffering and hope, emotion and spirituality. An exhibition that allows an age-old story to resonate anew.
We warmly invite you to the opening event of this exhibition in the Great Hall of the Maria-Theresiacollege. The artist Klaus Verscheure and Prof. Dr. Jan Christiaens (Chair Via Pulchritudinis: Music and Religion since 1900) will engage in a conversation on the relationship between art and religion. SPECTRA will then perform the compelling soundtrack of 14 Emotions / Allegoria via dolorosa and of KAIN & ABEL.
Admission is free, but kindly confirm your attendance before February 3 via the registration link.