narrative projects

09/08/2023

Amazing African photography exhibition in London!

From female bikers decked out in pink to dreamy desert tableaux, a new exhibition replaces two centuries of western influence with Africans’ own liberated visions

22/12/2021

Beautiful and thorough curator’s tour by Christine Eyene .prjx of the group show BREAKING THE MOULD: New Signatures from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This show features the work of 11 emerging artists from the DRC, predominantly former students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, who are breaking the boundaries of academic training and developing new forms of visual explorations. The exhibition took place in London and coincided with 1-54 Contemporary African Fair and Frieze Fairs.

02/12/2021

Beautiful minimalist gesture by Carlos Noronha Feio on view in Miami showing until Saturday! Noronha Feio's diverse practice includes actions, performance, video, drawing, painting, photography, rug works and installation. He consumes, manipulates, juxtaposes and performs or re-sites media as research into cultural, local and global identity. He frequently adopts culturally significant images, locations and symbols as a form of creative interference with meaning, and demonstrates the almost arbitrary nature in which cultural significance is adopted or interpreted. (Images: ‘As if you were mine, blue state’ and ‘Twins’ both works 2021)

02/11/2021

BREAKING THE MOULD: New Signatures from the Democratic Republic of Congo is rocking in London until 28th November 2021! Don’t miss this must see exhibition! The artists are: Arlette Bashizi, Beau Disundi, Ghislain Ditshekedi, Godelive Kasangati, Anastasie Langu, Jamil Lusala, Catheris Mondombo, Arsène Mpiana, Stone Mutshikene, Chris Shongo, Ange Swana and Joycenath Tshamala, curated by Christine Eyene.

11/10/2021

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Emyelle (Mutant Garden Seeder #2) by Harm van den Dorpel is included in Sotheby’s 'Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors' auction, their second dedicated NFT sale.⠀
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Where traditional artistic mediums require the artist to create the work with their own hand, Van den Dorpel rather programs software and trains it by looping continuous feedback through its output in order to produce works with unpredictable aesthetic outcomes. As many people nowadays equate artificial intelligence with neural networks, the artist wants to highlight other moments in this recent history of computation, approaching it as algorithmic archeology. The latest installment in the artist’s inquiry into the history of computation is Mutant Garden, which uses an existing algorithm called ‘Cartesian Genetic Programming’ ⠀⠀
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01/10/2021

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English below. Taus Makhacheva komt naar Friesland! Kom meer te weten over haar tijdens de Taus Talk op zaterdagmiddag 2 oktober. De gerenommeerde kunstenaar gaat een nieuw werk maken, geïnspireerd op Friesland. De komende week reist ze kriskras door de provincie op zoek naar wat ons eigen maakt. Van palingvissers en kunstenaars tot dorpshuizen, stamkroegen en het drenkelingenhuisje in Terschelling.

Ontmoet Taus Makhacheva op tijdens een live talkshow op de zaterdagmiddag, Met Jacco de Boer (hoofdredacteur/presentator IepenUP) als host gaan we dieper in op de thema’s in haar werk. Neem plaats midden in haar expositie, ín charivari. Na afloop borrelen we na in Thùs. Meld je snel aan via de website:

www.friesmuseum.nl/activiteiten/taus-talk

Taus Makhacheva is coming to Friesland! Her extensive solo exhibition It's possible to raise the ceiling a bit* is now on show in the Fries Museum. The renowned artist starts each work with a collection of people, stories, experiences, landscapes and objects. Her artistry revolves around encounters as a catalyst.

The Fries Museum invited Taus Makhacheva to make a new work, inspired by Friesland. During 7 days Taus travels criss-cross through the province in search of what makes us our own. From eel fishermen, famous ice skating villages and pubs to the ‘drenkelingenhuisje’ in Terschelling.

Meet Taus Makhacheva this Saturday 2 October during this exclusive talk. With Jacco de Boer as host, we go deeper into the themes in her work. Take a seat in the middle of her exhibition, ín Charivari. Afterwards we have a drink in the museumcafé.
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17/09/2021

Earlier this year, in March we were shaken by the tragic news of passing of the great artist, erudite and poet of the quotidian - Nikita Alexeev (1959 - 2021). narrative projects had an honour to host a solo exhibition of Nikita’s paintings in 2015 and we’ve been friends since. After overcoming the initial grief and shock our friends are paying an homage to the artist with a solo exhibition ‘The Cat on the Fresco’ curated by a friend and admirer of Nikita’s work and amazing artist himself, Carlos Noronha Feio In his text to accompany the exhibition Carlos says: ‘I always did love more his works without the human figure, the obsessive movement of the hand that is not satisfied with a simple variation on a theme.
The rigor in the shift of perspective without sifting the image too much, without shifting the words, without “nuancing” the works to the point of being obviously something else, is ever present in his series.’ Image: Nikita Alexeev, Conversations series, 2015