Some patient doorway, Art Telex (2025)
Some patient doorway began when Ems temporarily moved in with Morgan and Auke. Their household shifted overnight: possibilities unfolded, roles reshuffled, certainties unsettled. In the midst of depression, Van Gele found comfort in the slow, deliberate search for quiet domesticity in her relationships.
As a child, Van Gele would pick rosehips from the bush in her parents’ terrace garden every autumn, which ripen
once the first frost has passed. Rosehips—sour, thorny, strikingly red in color—recall medieval symbols of love,
but also Van Gele’s own complicated relationship with her younger self.
In this series, Van Gele pursues her own version of queer, trans, polyamorous domesticity. She reaches for symbols
of the everyday—table salt, candle wax, brass, herbs, baking soda—weaving them as ritual, a spell cast to an-
chor herself. Each painting becomes an invocation, willing a future of peaceful mundanity into being.
Artist: Morgan Van Gele.
Photography by Tomas Bachot.
