Photo’s by Fabian Landewee
This work brings together clay, print, and spatial gestures to explore how ideas are shaped, carried, and accumulated through materials and shared spatial actions together. It considers how the passage of time can be embedded in materials (such as a pair of your mother’s shoes) and how an exhibition space can be transformed into a collective gathering. Ideas are treated as materials: malleable, repeated, and continually reconsidered. Ceramic hats drift at varying heights throughout the exhibition space. Their forms echo both Edward de Bono’s Thinking Hats, devices for structuring thought, and the symbolic headwear found in centuries of classical painting. Pink ceramic bows punctuated the space, their forms drawn from John Gilbert’s illustrations for the 1860s edition of As You Like It by William Shakespeare. In the book, these bows frame the pages, giving shape and emphasis to the titles and typography that mark each scene. Here, they lift off the page and into the room, arching above doorways, entrances, and pillars. Over the course of two weeks, the presentation unfolded as an ongoing process. Conversations, performances, and encounters reactivated the space, leaving traces that are as temporary and intertwined as footprints in sand. With events and contributions by Davy Wouda, Lia Mansour-Khoury, Bronwen Jones, Sara Pezzolesi, Emma van den Berg, Ariel Collier, Alexandra Duvekot and Julia Dahee Hong.