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

04/05/2021

Spectacular new software work Mutant Garden by Harm van den Dorpel is on view in Amsterdam This is what the artist says about this new body of work: We all know DNA forms the blueprint of life. Through mutation and crossover, genetic information is passed to our children. How exactly this information that builds our bodies, and organises our trillions of cells, each line in our skin, is encoded in our genes is miraculous. Equating our DNA to a "map" of our body, where there would be a one-to-one relation between genes and cells, makes no sense. The genome is limited to contain a relatively small amount of information. Such a map would exceed the territory.

Instead, it is better to think of our genetic information as a repository of many highly efficient intertwined strategies, recipes, methods – algorithms, if you will – from which the huge amount of cells that compose our bodies are generated, recursively. These instructions in our DNA are parsed and executed, over and over again, based on local conditions: if this, then do that, or else do this. Genetic information could be considered as a compressed collection of computer programmes, from which life emerges. Join Harm later tonight for a conversation on NFT Aesthetics organised by Rhizome SEE THE INFO IN STORIES ⏩⏩⏩

01/05/2021

Taus Makhacheva

it’s possible to raise the ceiling a bit*

The majority of the works in this extensive solo exhibition are on view in the Netherlands for the first time. The exhibition includes a living archive by The Unbound collective, and films, objects, installations and new work she will make especially for the Fries Museum. The exhibition explores the traditions of history making and its encounters with everyday life.

digital dress - a video commissioned on the occasion of exhibition. To mark the original opening date Taus Makhacheva invited designer Panika Derevya and film director Alexandra Pustynnova to develop a digital dress which the artist, being in Moscow, wore on the original opening date of her exhibition in Leeuwarden. Full video in stories and link in bio ⏫⏫⏫

15/02/2021

We are very excited to announce the acquisition of three works by Taus Makhacheva by Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland ‘In the body of work entitled Karakul, I explore the borders and the main features of humanity through the relationship between a strange, unsociable, anthropomorphic creature covered in grey karakul fur, and a horse, which embodies a domestic animal. “Anthropomorphous” repeats all movements after the horse. What does this process mean? Spectators may feel that it is a very human, very sociable way to be together. The relations between the creature and the horse are full of humanity, an intention to understand, full of mental and emotional sincerity. They meet each other, they try to understand each other, and to grasp the best features of humanity in that relationship.’ (from the artist’s statement). The works will be exhibited at the museum in the group exhibition ‘The Night Will Drive A Heart’ opening on Friday 19th February ⬆️ link in bio! (Images Taus Makhacheva, Karakul (video still); Karakul #4; Karakul #5, 2007)

02/12/2020

stick-people adore the sun (tree of life), 2018 by Carlos Noronha Feio was produced for the artist’s solo exhibition at the gallery - ‘even if at heart we are uncertain of the will to connect, there is a common future ahead’ Thrilled to see the work exhibited this week in Warsaw as part of Thank you and good luck! If you happen to be in Warsaw this week it’s a must see!!!

12/09/2020

Images of the work Algues Artificielle, 2017 by Harm van den Dorpel (first exhibited in his solo show ‘Asking for a friend’ at the gallery) accompanied a series of reflections on the contemporary condition of being human in the capitalist economy, eco crisis and new notion of the self in the essay by Terence Sharpe NEW GENRES OF BEING FOR THE MITIGATION OF ECOCIDE - link in bio ⬆️⬆️⬆️