1. Clementine Edwards, Copper and Rice Landscape, 2022, courtesy of the artist. 2. Cihad Caner, Rijksopen 2022, photo by Sander van Wettum. 3. Hannah Henderson, blueprints, composing the membrane of a temporary dwelling (2022), Rijksakademie Open Studios 2022, courtesy of the artist. 4. Kari Robertson, 'Material Memories/Liquid Legacies', 2022, ARTBO, Camara de Comercio Bogota. 5. Tuan Andrew Nguyen, video still of The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, 2022.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Cihad Caner, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Clementine Edwards, Kari Robertson. Curated by Katayoun Arian.
In what ways does matter retain memory? Can we develop a more responsible relation to water – an inherently ancient substance that remembers and retains all human endeavour – by considering our bodies as conduits in the hydrological cycle? What can a kinship with non-sentient materials look like, and why is it imperative to our shared future and continued existence?
The questions that inform this exhibition derive from the work of five artists who trace, cast, and carve out the multi-layered relationships between memory and matter in sensuous, vibrant, and imaginative ways. These artists survey personal archives and uncomfortable collective histories that link materiality and intergenerational transmission across time, bodies, and geographies. In doing so, they hold space for playful intimacies with the material world by intervening, re-imagining and reclaiming that which is tangible. Threaded through the exhibition is the transformative potential of understanding that the knowing self is always partial, unstable, and never complete. The artists’ exploration of the interdependence between the physicality of all things and stored material memory invites our closer inspection and deeper listening.
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Cihad Caner, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Clementine Edwards, Kari Robertson. Curated by Katayoun Arian.