- Mette Sterre & Inge Aanstoot

Back to the hunting grounds is a duo-exhibition of Inge Aanstoot and Mette Sterre. Inge Aanstoot en Mette Sterre share the interest of the mystical and mythical, which they both interpret in different media.

Inge Aanstoot is a painter who lets classical tales and themes inspire her work. She is interested in symbolism, storytelling and human association capacities. Her interest mostly lies with the different interpretation of shown symbols and situations by different people(s), as well as the endless amount of visual images that people surround themselves with. She is currently examining differences in natural and cultural behaviour and drives, and will show the new works in which she does so. Also, the works will show her studies of new formats; both bigger and smaller canvasses than she is used to work with.

Mette Sterre is a performance artist, creating costumes and installations which she presents through lens-based media. She’s interested in the paradox of our moral humanist standards, in relationship to (contemporary) freakshows. Her work is theatrical and baroque often with a narrative structure.

She’ll show a new installation especially made for this occasion, a  miniature jungle depicting a new scene in the story of paradise (lost), a travel through time, where  thoughts of suspension of waiting for the kill and the afterlife are evoked.

On the opening on the 27th of February she’ll perform a new piece, “snakes don’t eat apples”. Inspired by allegorical paintings and  Victorian aesthetics and a recent discoveries about snakes, she combines all this into a rewrite of history of our origins.