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DMW Gallery at Art Antwerp: 'Has-beens & new beans' by Ellen Pil

With Has-beens & new beans, Ellen Pil makes her debut at DMW Gallery. The solo exhibition is an installation full of Potential Lovers, an on-going series of portraits she has been working on since 2010.

Pil is fascinated by reproduction, manipulation and perfection, the principles of industrial production that are increasingly becoming the driving force behind contemporary humanism. In an attempt to present the ideal version of ourselves to the world, everyone is using tools that, until some time ago, were …