Opening: it will come from below

Jester proudly presents it will come from below, a duo exhibition by Ada Van Hoorebeke (°1982, BE) and Junghun Kim (°1991, SK). it will come from below resonates with the layered histories of the former mining site, where traces of the industrial past remain materially and symbolically embedded in the environment. The nearby slag heap, which is visible from the exhibition space, acts as the geographic and conceptual anchor point, approaching the landscape as a body, and in turn, the body as a landscape. Viewing this landmark as both a scar and seedbed, it will come from below questions how landscapes metabolize trauma, and how bodies—whether human and non-human—adapt, persist, and heal within altered ecologies.

Junghun Kim’s practice interrogates the profound impact of economic and technological progress on humanitarian concerns. At Jester, Kim developed a sculptural installation that converses with the politics of extraction practiced on this site, “un-drilling” the wounds they have left behind.

Ada Van Hoorebeke creates fabrics and installations involving the growing and processing of dye plants, her practice can be read as a living laboratory, embracing nature’s complexity and survival through transformation. For it will come from below, she developed Madder Routines (2025), a work that frames the madder plant that was historically coveted for the alizarin red pigment in its roots, as its protagonist. A new generation of madder has been planted and now populates the Jester site, while an older generation has left a delicate imprint of its root systems on textile.

Works by Kim and Van Hoorebeke activate dye plants, ceramics, sculptural devices, textile works, and performance-based video, tracing connections between metabolic processes, planetary care, and embodied resilience.

The exhibition space itself is presented as a living body that breathes and pulses, and where cycles of regeneration are made tangible. Writer Susan Griffin’s reflection that “the body is a landscape” acts as a conceptual lens through which care, decay, and regeneration are reconsidered. Rather than presenting the industrial past of this site as a closed chapter, the exhibition listens to its reverberations, suggesting that what lies below still pulses with life.

The exhibition will open on Saturday, June 21, during Summer start, the longest day of the year. We are celebrating this together with C-mine, LUCA School of Arts and Jester, in a day of art, music, exercise and good food. it will come from below officially opens at 3 p.m., but can be viewed continuously from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., in the Jester Art Hall. We look forward to welcoming you and celebrating this special day together!