July 25 - September 6 2025
TICK TACK, Antwerp
July 30
Off-site Screening + Performance
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
(Schinkel Pavillon above)
Heavily inspired by Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Sojourn explores cycles of life, death, and reincarnation as a framework for thinking through history and the burden of its preservation. Through a critique of monuments, memory, and cultural canon, Carpenter asks urgent questions: What gets to be remembered? Who decides? And what forms can remembrance take?
Developed across multiple interconnected formats—a site-specific installation, paintings, a short story, and a film—Sojourn unfolds as a fractured narrative across all three levels of TICK TACK, with each element interpreting the others. This layered structure reflects the unstable nature of historical perspective, and our collective struggle to hold onto truth in the face of erasure.
With this project, Carpenter continues to challenge how we assign value to memory, and who is permitted to leave a mark. Sojourn is developed in part during Carpenter's residency at TICK TACK’s Antwerp studio.
OPENING NIGHT
Friday July 25, 7 - 10 PM
Performance by the artist
TICK TACK, Mechelsesteenweg 247, 2018 Antwerp
TICK TACK OFF-SITE at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
On July 30, five days after the opening of Sojourn at TICK TACK in Antwerp, the eponymous film travels to Berlin for a one-night screening at Schinkel Pavillon. This presentation is part of TICK TACK’s OFF-SITE program, realized in collaboration with Schinkel Pavillon and 032c, and coincides with the closing of Carpenter’s current solo exhibition at 032c in Berlin.
The project is dedicated to the memory of Michael Carpenter