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The broadening of scope towards experimental visual art was characteristic of Ruimte Morguen. There was a search for ways to show art beyond the narrow, classical concept of exhibition. Crucial to this expansion was working within a given situation. In most of these projects, the city of Antwerp itself was the starting point. The urban fabric —with its harbour, vacant lots and abandoned buildings —made the city an interesting setting for a group of young artists. They experimented within this environment, using the street, ruins and wall fragments for interventions that disrupted the usual function and meaning of public space.

Even though you had a permanent space from 1982 onwards, you also took part in projects that unfolded outside the exhibition space, within the fabric of the city. 

"Indeed, we did that as much as possible. The urban context and the social space it implied were very important to us. Vanche, for instance, created large-scale murals for Carcasses poétiques in four derelict houses: visual poetry on the remnants of what had once been habitable buildings." Marc Schepers

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