On the first floor of Pizza Gallery Ghent, Ian De Weerdt is showing the installation “Yes, say yes” as well as a series of 5 works the “Ecstatic body studies”.

'Yes, say yes' is a work that takes cleansing of the artistic archive as its subject. It revises residues from the past and literally writes with the material to seek new layers of meaning and legibility. This new legibility aims at total affirmation, an expression of Amor Fati.

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'Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.'

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The 'Ecstatic body studies' series consists of five works that combine painting with screen printing. The substrates are cast in various materials; they are studies to create bespoke architectural integrations. The series takes the inner space of ecstasy to subject.

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