Özlem Altin, Merav Artzi, Isabel Cordeiro, Elidoor Gerrits, Lina Issa, Birgit Knoechl, Tobias Laukemper, Yu Kuramoto, Renée Ridgway, Kelly Warman, Katarina Zdjelar
Katarina Zdjelar’s video and sound works explore language and translation. By joining a Dutch language course she herself experienced what it means to adapt to a new language. Zdjelar was awarded the 2006 Promotion Prize for graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute.
Lina Issa performance ‘Where we are not’ was inspired by her experience of being in-between cultures. While a visa allowing her to return to her homeland Lebanon was pending, she decided to send a stand-in to her family and friends at home.
Özlem Altin investigated how objects can transform into people, and how people can (almost) become objects. In her performance and installation the voice of a prompter functioned as a guide.
Elidoor Gerrits portrayed people whose way of life has been restricted due to age or illness. With precise camera work, her videos touched not only on the human condition, but also the beauty of details.
Yu Kuramoto gave the ABN AMRO logo on top of Rotterdam’s Euromast a mythological dimension. She constructed a virgin white replica of this logo, presenting it as a beacon calling the residents of Rotterdam to unite in universal harmony.
Birgit Knoechl works with paper cut-outs in large installations, suggesting a proliferation of lines which almost seem to come to life. Her work is inspired by mutated forms, biological theories and science fiction.
Inspired by architectural models, Isabel Cordeiro studied the ways we relate to the concept of space. By combining elements from painting and architecture, she created painted objects in which space is experienced in different ways.
Renée Ridgway investigated how meanings assigned to actions and goods shift when they become part of cultural or financial exchange. Her video installation uncovered (suspicious) dealings concerning the acquisition of gold at a Rotterdam bank.
Tobias Laukemper & Kelly Warman made a collaborative film. Against a background of modernist architecture they performed an ironical portrait of the artist, spouting forth one utopian art-theoretical dissertation after another.
Merav Artzi‘s documentary ‘Undercurrent’ sketched a portrait of the artists’ initiative and squatters community OT301 in Amsterdam through various stories exchanged by the inhabitants.
The title of the exhibition ‘Wherein certain persons…’ was inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a book constructed as a collection of multiple tales. Merav Artzi also used Boccaccio’s frame story as the motif of her film.
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Özlem Altin, Merav Artzi, Isabel Cordeiro, Elidoor Gerrits, Lina Issa, Birgit Knoechl, Tobias Laukemper, Yu Kuramoto, Renée Ridgway, Kelly Warman, Katarina Zdjelar