Starting today, Thursday, April 6th at M Leuven, ‘The Migration of the Wings’ is the first Belgian solo exhibition by American artist Jill Magid.

The show consists on a visual and sonic meditation on the forced migration of the triptych “The Last Supper”, one of Leuven’s most iconic art works, made between 1464 1468 by Dieric Bouts for Saint Peter’s Church in Leuven –where it is still on view.

The triptych was dismembered in 1707 and stripped of its wings: Jill Magid focuses in on the wings as spoils of war, evoking their movement through sculptures and a two-channel film (9:25 min) that enters the interior spaces where the wings traveled.

Magid’s new installation at M intimately questions how objects can be deployed as political pawns, and how these objects come to contain the traces of violence that resonate throughout history, if we listen.