La Colère de Ludd

The Wrath of Ludd brings together some forty works recently acquired by the Province of Hainaut and, for the most part, never before exhibited in the museum. Starting from the concept of dispossession, the works selected express experiences of uprooting, occupation, destruction, exhaustion; but also of resistance and attachment. The exhibition thus evokes in a poetic, romantic and political way different situations of dispossession that human beings can be brought to experience, in a more or less conscious way.

Borrowed from a book by Julius Van Daal, the title of the exhibition refers to the revolt of English workers who, in the midst of the industrial revolution, tried to resist technical progress. Led by the legendary General Ned Ludd, these insurgents destroyed machines, which they believed were responsible for the dispossession of their know-how, property, and rights.

In a capitalist society dominated by the logic of possession, at a time when fundamental human rights remain flouted and where freedoms are constantly questioned, how is the human being built on this succession of dispossessions? Through works with various media and aesthetics (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, tapestry, etc.), The Wrath of Ludd highlights different forms of deprivation (of time, territory, identity, work, etc.) but also various voluntary approaches aimed at freeing oneself and thinking more freely about these constraints.

ARTISTS: Marcos Avila Forero, Ilit Azoulay, Charlotte Azoulay, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Priscilla Beccari, Priscilla Beccari, Charif Benhelima, Miriam Cahn, Jacques Charlier, Nicolas Clément & Barbara Massart, Stijn Cole, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Charlotte Beaudry, Priscilla Beccari, Priscilla Beccari, Priscilla Beccari, Charif Benhelima, Miriam Cahn, Jacques Charlier, Nicolas Clément & Barbara Massart, Stijn Cole, Barbara Massart, Stijn Cole, Stijn Cole, Marie-Line Debliquy, Marie-Line Debliquy, Laurence Dervaux, Laurence Dervaux, Florence Doléac & Maximum, Maëlle Felix, Barbara Geraci, Margaret Harrison, Bénédicte Henderick, Bénédicte Henderick, Laura Henno, Laura Henno, Laura Henno, Katia Kameli, Teresa Margolles, Yerbossin Meldibekov, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Anita Molinero, Anita Molinero, Anita Molinero, Camila Molinero, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, ORLAN, ORLAN, Sylvie Pichrist, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Anne- Marie Schneider, Allan Sekula, Suspended Spaces, Achraf Touloub, Achraf Touloub, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Véronique Vercheval, Liliane Vertessen, Marie Voignier, Marie Voignier, Marie Voignier, Ulla von Brandenburg, Ulla von Brandenburg, Peter Wächtler, Marthe Wéry.

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