Upcoming: PLAYGROUNDS: DEUCE
14.05.2026 — 17.05.2026
PLAYGROUNDS: DEUCE'
Throughout the space, a tennis net runs along the walls at regulation height. It does not divide, protect, or instruct. Instead, it marks a boundary of play pushed to the periphery, framing the works while remaining transparent. Scattered tennis balls on the floor signal residue rather than action: traces of movement, repetition, and effort, without spectacle. The game has already happened, or is perpetually about to begin.
PLAYGROUNDS: DEUCE proposes the exhibition space as a site of cross-disciplinary play, where artists operate between control and intuition, structure and imagination. The net becomes a metaphor for exchange: a porous threshold where meaning travels back and forth. Looking is no longer passive. Gaze, emotion, memory, and projection return the work’s gesture, creating a subtle back-and-forth between creator and viewer.
In this suspended state, no final point is scored. Instead, the exhibition lingers in reciprocity. The works do not resolve themselves fully, and the viewer is never simply outside the game. What emerges is a continuous negotiation - “a deuce” - where interpretation remains open, shared, and alive.
Curated by Sam Timmerman. In Collaboration with PLUS-ONE Projects
Participating artists: Full list coming soon.
PLAYGROUNDS: DEUCE
14.05.’26 - 17.05.’26
During Antwerp Art Weekend
Opening hours: www.antwerpartweekend.be
Gallery + Project space
by PLUS-ONE Projects
Vlaamsekaai 73
2000 Antwerp - BE
www.plus-one.be
info@plus-one.be
@plus_one_projects
Contact
Jason Poirier dit Caulier
jason@plus-one.be
+32 (0) 495 24 82 99
Thomas De Ben
thomas@plus-one.be
+32 (0) 498 26 50 44