26 November 2022 - 14 January 2023
Featuring Fernanda Rachad, Lucas Atteveld and Piotr Urbaniec
Curated by Emile Weisz and Jasper Rouwen (suzi)
spells (s2)
Photos by Jasper Rowen and Emile Weisz
text by Emile Weisz
'Vagonka' is a word that describes the plastic cladding that can be used on the interior and exterior walls of a building. Installing vagonka means covering the original wall of the building with an artificial one, the result of which creates an inbetween space (...)
We invited the artist Fernanda Barhumi to exhibit her 'You can't spell x, without y' series to submerge the space with her text panels and to give the space a new 'skin'. These were accompanied by the heavy sculptural work of Lucas Atteveld, forming a strong spatial counterweight to Barhumi's wall work. These works almost immediately began to resonate and unveiled new layers of hidden meanings within each other. We wanted to try to find a balance and wholeness in exhibiting works that embodied polar opposite elements; heavy and light, black and white, up and down. Piotr Urbaniec created an installation work in the basement where he reconstructed all the walls and ceiling with plastic 'vagonka' panelling. Behind the panelling he installed moving lights and speakers to create an electronic theater in a dark basement space.
I think in the end for me the exhibition was about a kind of conceptual archeology, the excavation of hidden meanings, to realize there is a space beyond the known confines of our mind. We can open up to that timeless openness, to reconfigure and create a new skin.
We invited the artist Fernanda Barhumi to exhibit her 'You can't spell x, without y' series to submerge the space with her text panels and to give the space a new 'skin'. These were accompanied by the heavy sculptural work of Lucas Atteveld, forming a strong spatial counterweight to Barhumi's wall work. These works almost immediately began to resonate and unveiled new layers of hidden meanings within each other. We wanted to try to find a balance and wholeness in exhibiting works that embodied polar opposite elements; heavy and light, black and white, up and down. Piotr Urbaniec created an installation work in the basement where he reconstructed all the walls and ceiling with plastic 'vagonka' panelling. Behind the panelling he installed moving lights and speakers to create an electronic theater in a dark basement space.
I think in the end for me the exhibition was about a kind of conceptual archeology, the excavation of hidden meanings, to realize there is a space beyond the known confines of our mind. We can open up to that timeless openness, to reconfigure and create a new skin.
text by Emile Weisz