Check XXe at After Howl

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Artists: Bending Binding, Adam Cruces, Antoine Donzeaud, Matthieu Haberard, Antone Konst, Hubert Marot, Quintessa Matranga, Yannick Val Gesto

Exhibition title: Check XXe

Curated by: Exo Exo

Venue: After Howl, Brussels, Belgium

Date: April 25 – May 9, 2015

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists, After Howl and Exo Exo

Check

A coded word that brings attention to the fact that someone in the vicinity is making a move on the opposite sex (without being obvious). The move being made may be overt, subtle, physical, firting etc. Checks are usually done to embarrass the parties involved.

Advanced users may make a more complex coding system such as check-plus, check-minus, j-check, s-check etc which may be user defned.

When Jay saw Frank talking up the hot new professor, he shouted, «Check!»

As in «You’re right.» Or, «I agree with that.» Used with a hand signal where you make a check mark in the air with your index fnger. The more you agree, the bigger and more exaggerated the hand signal. Can almost be used without saying the actual word, just the signal itself.

Coretta: «That girl over there is a skanky hobag.»

Jeanetta: (While making a check mark in the air with her fnger) «Check!»

When you are so fat that your chin and your neck converge into one.

Man, look at the Check on that no-neck fatty!

XXe

Le 20e arrondissement est le dernier des vingt arrondissements de Paris. Il est situé sur la rive droite de la Seine. Il est bordé au nord par le 19e arrondissement, à l’est par les communes des Lilas, de Bagnolet, de Montreuil et de Saint-Mandé, au sud par le 12e arrondissement, à l’ouest par le 11e.

Belleville, Couronnes, Ménilmontant

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Bending Binding, Kooling Systems (Marilyn), 2015

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Bending Binding, Kooling Systems (Lift up skirts), 2015

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Bending Binding, Kooling Systems (Whirlwind), 2015

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Bending Binding, Kooling Systems (Spongebob), 2015

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Adam Cruces, Rain, 2012

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Adam Cruces, Black Hole, 2014

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Antoine Donzeaud, Ordinary Objects for Common Use (Couch), 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Screen, where the touch, is a real sensation, 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Screen, where the touch, is a real sensation, 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Your time is running out, 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Stephane; They took our…, 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Marcel; Where the bulbs are?, 2015

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Matthieu Haberard, Combine painting, 2015

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Antone Konst, Prayer (Moyen_age), 2015

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Antone Konst, Marinetti (Mscl_mn), 2015

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Antone Konst, Sax (Sérénade), 2015

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Hubert Marot, LW 1, 2015

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Quintessa Matranga, In the Walnut Part 2, 2015

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Quintessa Matranga, Cynical Orange, 2015

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Quintessa Matranga, The White Rabbit’s Well, 2015

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Yannick Val Gesto, (Positive Thinking), 2014

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Yannick Val Gesto, (Soul Protection), 2014

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Yannick Val Gesto, (Mikcey Surprise), 2014