Drifting Waters Featuring works by Asma Laajimi, Carole Louis, Qiao Chu Guo, and Niel de Vries
Drifting is both a metaphor and a lived experience.
This exhibition explores the duality between the disorientation of finding paths, migrating, and putting down roots. The stories you encounter are embodied water- and data-flows: they show how stories and knowledge stream between minds, how intimacy is mediated across distances, and how rivers are monitored and estranged from those who once lived along their banks.
Shifting waters
At Fringe’s invitation, Off the Grid and Cas-co bring together four artists exhibiting in Leuven for the first time. Drifting Waters is a visual, narrative, and sometimes fictional ramble through physical and digital worlds. From crossing seas and oceans to rivers and streams: the exhibition bridges the exuberance of dating apps, the flow of communication with family, and the feeling of belonging far from home.
Drifting is both metaphor and lived experience.
Here, wandering becomes a strategy - sometimes calm and deliberate, sometimes disorienting and surprising - through which artists ask where they belong, what their identity is, and how they seek a lasting base.
The exhibition’s title coincides with a 1916 novel by Irish poet and writer Rachel Swete Macnamara about a British woman sent to Canada who tries to rebuild emotional and intellectual ties there.
Through film, installation, and performance, Drifting Waters offers a symbolic and poetic look into a space of shifting expectations, changing identities, and uncharted terrain. The artists unfold their stories, delicate practices, and inner thoughts - into the uncertainty of navigating togetherness and shaping imagination.
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Partners
Off the Grid
Openingsuren
From November 20 to December 6, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, each time from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Adres
Cas-co
Vaartstraat 94, 3000 Leuven
Contact
info@cas-co.be
www.cas-co.be
Toegankelijkheid
The main building of Cas-co (Vaartstraat 94) provides a temporary setting in an old industrial building, which means it is not optimally adapted to the needs of wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility. Level 0 is wheelchair accessible via the entrance on Vaartstraat. Level 1 is wheelchair accessible, with staff assistance, via the back entrance on Kardinaalstraat. Level 2 can be easily reached by stairs.
