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Sunday June 7th 2-5 pm Potahof Delft (nl)
bij wijze van SPREKEN (artist talk) with presentations of Marina Tomic (rs), Pavel Forman (cz) Suzanne van Rest (nl) and Veridiana Zurita (br) about their work at FLAT_land.
_galerij_loop_01_____ (exhibition) with work from Marina Tomic (rs), Matthijs Kiel (nl), Liset van Dommelen (nl) and Veridiana Zurita (br).
Liset van Dommelen (nl)
Liset van Dommelen is an artist from Delft.
She uses a little room in a flat she shares with others as exhibition place
for her installation " Silence" and "Rabbits telling stories".
The room is perfectly situated beside the front door so people walking in
the flat can look inside. She created " Silence" after a year
of media silence, when she didn't read newspapers and magazines and did
not watch TV or listen to the radio. Two chairs and a table wrapped in dreads
from felt and empty newspapers create an environment were you can renew
your focus on silence in everyday life. With rabbits telling stories she
brings her own family history into the building. And hopes to learn more
about other peoples stories. In an other flat she had a one afternoon presentation
from the works "family " and "destination unknown".
Her one afternoon work was related to family life, and being a temporary
visitor in the building were it looks that every body is coming and going
. www
Matthijs Kiel (nl)
For the presentation on the 7th of July I focus on the subject of the flat
its architecture. This 'democratic’ construction emphasizes an anonymous
and individual aspect of our existence. This location gives me the impression
of being exchangeable. On the other hand a place, wherever you may be, sleep,
eat etc. can be called 'home'. You get attached to it and make it your own.
I'm interested in this borderline.
www
Pavel Forman (cz)
I work in specific time and place, painting becomes temporary and performative.
Either it gets painted over or survives…for some time. I specifically focus
on large areas to paint on and on figure. I often use ‘non- painting’ approach,
spray, tapes, projectors and musters. I flirt with visuality of social realism
and pop- art, I like using symbols that can be understood by people who
on one hand don’t deal with art but on the other are used to communicating
through languages of today’s supermedial world. Therefore digital print…and
their symbiosis. I lay painting onto print and apply print on painting,
I paint like a computer and print like a painter. I need diverse material
to work with (canvas, carpets, overhead projectors, foils…). But again,
I like the ‘painting’ as a final result.
www
Veridiana Zurita
(br) & Marina Tomic (rs) DAI
For Veridiana Zurita her reside in the apartment is the exploration of body
and space as reactive place. When does the body actually start to negotiate
space? Incorporating video documentation as part of the gesture of inhabitation,
the house forms the basis of the creative process in which the body negotiates
within the living atmosphere- a ‘living-becoming-environment’. www
Marina Tomic’s performances investigate the realm of sensory perception
within specific contexts and spaces. Repetition shapes our lives, yet we
are still not aware of the small things in time and space around us, which
create our every day. While living in the apartment she will use repetition
in her project ‘Banal Day’ as a means to try to answer the following questions:
Can senses be repressed by a lack of trust in our own body? Can creativity
be repressed by repetition of gesticulation, becoming less in the habitual
of every day? www
