Belgium: Here be Lions by Isabel Miquel Arques
November 20, 2015 - January 9, 2015 at Ingrid Deuss Gallery Ingrid Deuss gallery is proud to present the new solo exhibition of Spanish-born and Antwerp based artist Isabel Miquel Arques, « Here be lions ». Toon Tellegen’s book, “Letters to Sleeping Beauty”, has greatly inspired this exhibition. The book describes the story of the prince deciding that the time has come to find Sleeping Beauty and kiss her. He doesn’t know where she is to be found, what this voyage shall bring or what to expect from his journey as a whole. During the course of his one-year travel, he writes her letters everyday. Miquel Arques works with the concept of longing and the many forms it might take, as she explains in her artist statement. The core of “Here be lions” aren’t fairy tales, not even “Sleeping Beauty” herself, but another kind of beauty that goes further than hundred years of sleep: longing. In today’s world, which appears to be fed by the immediate and the imminent, the notion of ‘longing’ s...