MAEGAN HILL-CARROLL, ROBERT KLEYN (BRUSSELS)

MAEGAN HILL-CARROLL, ROBERT KLEYN (BRUSSELS)

A provocation by Frances Horn
Curated by Wil Aballe

Opening: Wed, Apr 23, 5-9 PM
Exhibition: April 23 – May 10, 2025
Hours: Thurs – Sat, 12-5 PM

Wil Aballe
10, rue du Chapeau / Hoedstraat
1070 Anderlecht
Brussels, Belgium

ROBERT KLEYN
“Toward the Great Attractor” edition launch

Also on Wed, Apr 23, 5-9 PM
Co-published by Gevaert Editions & Wil Aballe

Exhibition PDF

For inquiries please contact Wil Aballe, wil@waapart.com

MAEGAN HILL-CARROLL is an artist and writer based in Vancouver. She holds an MFA from UCLA and a BFA from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg where she grew up building houses. Her writing has been published in Fillip and the Chapess. Her work explores the intersection of happenstance and magic. For decades she has explored the phenomenological in landscape and has sought out liminal spaces between build and natural places. She plays with the edges of photographic practice using paint, sculptural intervention, video and spoken words. Recent exhibitions include DUCT DUCK PUCE at WAAP and DRUNK at Vinegar Art Projects in Birmingham, Alabama. Hill-Carroll makes work collaboratively with artist Ann Trondson. Their first show together Picture Ball was shown in July 2024 at River House Arts in Toledo. Picture Ball Also opened in September at Dream Clinic in Columbus. They presented Picture Ball Too in the Boyer Campbell building at the Art Fair in Detroit. Hill-Carroll is currently working on a book project called Green Puce.

Born in Amsterdam and based in Vancouver, ROBERT KLEYN is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video, sculpture, installation, performance, artist books and architecture. He studied mathematics and architecture at the University of British Columbia. Beginning in the 1970s, he was active in early photo-conceptual and projection-based art in Vancouver. His early performative slide works, videos and photographs have been featured in exhibitions at Vancouver’s Pender Street Gallery in 1976 with Rodney Graham, the touring exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 and at Catriona Jeffries in 2011. In addition to exhibiting in Canada, he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and in New York where he was associated with the interdisciplinary groups Colab Projects and Machine Language. He has published criticism, curated, and has also worked in film and theatre. Kleyn’s ongoing conceptualist works have recently taken the form of language posters and a photographic study of holes. His new publication and poster, entitled Toward The Great Attractor, will be launched at this exhibition. Kleyn’s artworks are in public and private collections.