On October 20, M Leuven presents "The Off Hours", an in-situ installation by artist Jill Magid at St. Peter's Church (Leuven).

Every night, during the church's closing hours a musical score inspired by the nocturnal flight calls of migrating birds will emanate from the chapel that houses Dieric Bouts's triptych 'The Last Supper' (1464-68), and develop over the church’s 15 closing hours, mirroring the migratory flow of birds, and peaking, like their flight calls, at dusk and dawn. It’s a new chapter of Magid's film and sound installation 'The Migration of the Wings' presented at M in the spring of 2023.

The project explores the forced migration of the side panels, or ‘wings’ of ‘The Last Supper’, commissioned for St. Peter's. Throughout the triptych’s 600-year history, its wings, depicting scenes of Jewish diaspora from the Old Testament, have been repeatedly removed and exploited as commodities, spoils, and reparations of war. Meanwhile, the central panel, with its nearly frozen scene of the Last Supper, has remained in the church. Like the absence of the painting from its home, the score that fills the space resonates what cannot be seen, only sensed.