Odyssey Prequel

Yeşim Akdeniz, Jay Batlle, Julien Berthier, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Melissa Gordon, Mamiko Otsubo, Virginie Yassef

Info: A Prequel is an artwork about an earlier stage of a series or narrative when the later part of it has already been made into an artwork on its own. A Prequel is a follow-up that takes place before the original, a precursor or before-story. Until recently historians believed that Homer wrote the Odyssey some twenty years after he wrote the Iliad. The Iliad describes the events of the Trojan war while the Odyssey follows the events of Odysseus’s voyage home after the war. Therefore, it has always been believed that the Odyssey was a Sequel to the Iliad. Recent scholarship has proven otherwise, now it is believed that the Iliad was written later and therefore is the first known literary example of a Prequel. This dichotomy between sequel and prequel is essential in the process of all the Artists in this exhibition. Time before time, artistic ideas that predate their predecessors and investigations of images and objects whose relevance is in their genitorial or ancestral truth. All seven artists share a common interest in reversing or upending the narrative sequences in their works. The works in this exhibition seek to disturb the idea of chronology, ends become beginnings, afterthoughts become predictions and effects predate causes. (…) Opening hours: July 12–August 15, 2025, only by appointment.