Upcoming in Antwerp
“Stop Being Sad”
opening Saturday January 10, 2026
from 4 - 8 pm
January 10 - February 02, 2026
There is a particular kind of cultural vertigo that sets in when you realize that your work has begun to circulate independently of you, accruing meanings, misunderstandings, and minor recognitions without ever quite arriving anywhere that feels like arrival. stop being sad unfolds inside that vertigo. It is an exhibition about being visible without being powerful, present without being authoritative, alive without fully being believed in.
The title reads at first like advice, then like a command, and finally like something closer to a threat. It gestures toward the way affect is increasingly managed, optimized, and corrected in public life. Sadness is treated not as information or response but as error. To be sad is to malfunction. To be told to stop being sad is to be reminded that feeling is acceptable only when it does not interrupt circulation.
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“Stop Being Sad”
with Marijke De Roover
opening Saturday January 10, 2026
from 4 - 8 pm
January 10 - February 02, 2026
There is a particular kind of cultural vertigo that sets in when you realize that your work has begun to circulate independently of you, accruing meanings, misunderstandings, and minor recognitions without ever quite arriving anywhere that feels like arrival. stop being sad unfolds inside that vertigo. It is an exhibition about being visible without being powerful, present without being authoritative, alive without fully being believed in.
The title reads at first like advice, then like a command, and finally like something closer to a threat. It gestures toward the way affect is increasingly managed, optimized, and corrected in public life. Sadness is treated not as information or response but as error. To be sad is to malfunction. To be told to stop being sad is to be reminded that feeling is acceptable only when it does not interrupt circulation.
