Opening exhibition Aberrant Readings at TENT. Photography by Diana Oliveira.
Dafni Arvaniti, Valentina Facchinetti, jacolinde geerte, Marion Haguet, Julien Hamilton, Sten Heijster, Maria Ilieva, Maxime-Isis, Yan-Zhi (Jens) Kang, Hayen Kim, Eshrée Mettendaf, Zoe Prasinou, Nienke van Rijnswou, Raquel Williams, Fleur Wortman, Yim Ji Young, Lisa Zakharova
As part of our annual collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, students from the two academies work together to create new works for a presentation at TENT. For the two-month project, the artists draw inspiration from To Be Like Water, the current group exhibition at TENT, in a programme that includes workshops by artists from the exhibition.
As a starting point, To Be Like Water invites the exploration of themes around ‘code-switching’ – the practice of switching between different languages or social and cultural codes. The exhibition aims to investigate and complicate the notion of identity, and to consider ‘code-switching’ as a manifestation of a fluid multiplicity operating within vectors of power.
The resulting works by the KABK and WdKA artists will be shown in the front space of TENT from 20th March to 17th April.
Project coordinator/curator: Docus van der Made
Guest lecturer WdKA: Sarafina van Ast
Guest lecturer KABK: Katinka van Gorkum
Workshop guests: Jenny Brady, Robert Gabris, Jay Tan, Amy Suo Wu
Special thanks to: Kris Dittel and Adelheid Smit.
artists
Dafni Arvaniti, Valentina Facchinetti, jacolinde geerte, Marion Haguet, Julien Hamilton, Sten Heijster, Maria Ilieva, Maxime-Isis, Yan-Zhi (Jens) Kang, Hayen Kim, Eshrée Mettendaf, Zoe Prasinou, Nienke van Rijnswou, Raquel Williams, Fleur Wortman, Yim Ji Young, Lisa Zakharova