ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents ‘Multikulti Sause’, an exhibition of new works by Kati Heck. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show at the gallery, consists of 7 monumental sized paintings, 2 photographic works and a series of drawings. The title of the exhibition alludes to Angela Merkel’s statement ‘Multikulti ist tot’. Kati Heck stages people from her immediate environment in her canvases with a heightened sense of drama and irony. Her paintings often display happenings she held during her journeys or in the artist’s studio. Her whole gang is there, the local night shop owner, acquaintances with a dress-up fetish, malicious old men, indie kids, her friends. The nude female form is depicted confrontational, almost in a softcore porn kind of way. Heck’s protagonists are engaged in indeterminable tasks, making it challenging for us to figure out what they are thinking or in which mood they are in. O