24/06/2022
After four months of collectively investigating' Engagement we are working towards our final exhibition of this open call :
'ENGAGEMENT'
Collective exhibition - Post post at Het Archief in Rotterdam - 13-07-2022 / 17-07-2022
Out of other into I
Out of I into us
Out of structure into chaos
Out of comfort into conflict
Out of mind into body
Out of compliance into horizon
Out of ego into self
Were you invited to fully experience your Self and everything else? Do you want to engage?
We want to engage - we share the desire to take part in life and feel; know reality through relating to the other. A common meaning crisis evinces; there is a distance between us and our lives, our ego’s and selves, our bodies and minds. In (art) practice, this distance fuels the common conception of art as an isolated space, in which reality is merely a perception of the individual; a separate space, a shadow dancing on the wall. Statements are made, but didn’t we mean to invite you? How do we get to the other other side? How can we reveal our dance? How can we share space, feeling and thought? And first of all - what do we want? ‘Engagement’ is a groups exhibition that has resulted from the close collaboration between Donatas Tretjakovas, Isabelle de Rooij, Jesse Blaauw, Millie Earthy, Marcel Herkelman, notjohn, Tash Tudor, Sachia Peirreira and Simon Coops. Through collective reflection, conversation and experimentation, the artist have come to both personal and collective insights, regarding the question of ‘Engagement’. A collection of visual work that reflects the attempt to get closer to reality - more engaged. We believe that engagement is never the easy route - conflict has played an important role in our process. Rather than aiming at `agreement we have attempted to embrace paradox.
You can visit our exhibition from the 13th till the 17th of July, between 11.00 and 18.00, at the ground floor in het Archief, at the Robert Fruinstraat 52.