Ria Pacquée 
“AS I WALK I RESIST
(Bang the drum and Fuck the gun)” 

opening Friday October 17, 2025
from 7 - 10 pm

October 17 - November 09, 2025

“Ria Pacquee’s artistic process begins on the street. As a teenager she stood on an Antwerp street corner and waited to see what might happen. Consequently over several decades she has walked through the thorough fares and side streets of this city and many others across the world. Whether in Vienna, Kathmandu, Mexico City or Varanasi, she engages in her surroundings, acutely attentive to the fluctuation of events, the speed and slowness of things, finding the magical in the seemingly mundane. Whether as a performer or an active eye behind the camera, the theatre of everyday life is her medium. Ria’s practice is wholly informed by the activity of walking. The rhythms of walking, talking and looking bring forth a riffing with words, actions, sounds and images. The rhythm of her walking generates a pulse that exists throughout her work, like a heartbeat, a drumbeat, an earthbeat…

…Displayed are a series of small curtains hanging from walking sticks. These are inspired by the thresholds, open doorways and windows, Ria has encountered on her many journeys. While alluding to the boundary between public and private space the curtains also speak of a softer more permeable boundary in which the cloth suggests a welcoming, protective portal to
conviviality and communing in which the Western ideas of inside and outside do not apply. The curtain is an ambiguous intermediary…”

Excerpt of the exhibition text by Michael Curran (read the full text here) 

︎ Ria Pacquée