FLAT_land 03
Sunday July 5th 2-5 pm Potahof Delft (nl)

bij wijze van SPREKEN (artist talk) with presentations of Astrid Dekkers (nl), Jimini Hignett (uk), Julio Pastor (mx), Matthijs Kiel (nl) and Roos Hoffmann (nl) about their work at FLAT_land.

_galerij_loop_03_____ (exhibition) with work from Allison Nichol (ca), Astrid Dekkers (nl), Jasmine Ellis (ca), Jolanda Jansen (nl), Julio Pastor (mx) , Liset van Dommelen (nl), Matthijs Kiel (nl), Merryn Kritzinger (ca), Pavel Forman (cz), Raymond Huizinga (nl), Roos Hoffmann (nl), Suzanne van Rest (nl) and Viola Onderlinden (nl)

Astrid Dekkers (nl)
Studied history at Leiden University and Fine Art at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. People and their lives are the subjects of her works. She’s intrigued by the traces people leave, the places they live in and the tension between an inner and outer world. She makes installations, drawings and little books. The meaning of objects and the meaning of words play an important role in her work. www

Jasmine Ellis and Merryn Kritzinger (ca)
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Jolanda Jansen (nl)
For the project FLAT_land l want to do an investigation in contradictions. My space is in the cellar of the flat building. This is a dark unpleasant space opposite the light houses. In my work I create an intimate relation with this space and I try to bring some softness into this cellar. www

Julio Pastor (mx)
Julio Pastor’s residency in apartment 603 focused on collecting ‘Evidence’ from the previous inhabitants. Combining watercolour paintings, Polaroids and printed digital photographs Pastor created a map that serves as an investigation into the personalities of these people, their ways of living and how their daily lives might have been affected by the environment of the neighbourhood. All of the work that was produced during his stay was left in the flat, in this way becoming ‘evidence’ of his own living experience in Delft. www

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)
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)
He woke up in the morning in the neighborhood of Poptahof. He spent hours by the window of the 130 number flat on the third floor thinking, looking at the supermarket and watching the slow lightening of the near blocks of flats. Some of them looked like space ships. Others were just glowing. He found out that he had already known Poptahof from somewhere. Right from the first moment he felt like being at home. www

Raymond Huizinga (nl)
Raymond Huizinga explores aspects of darkness, mentally as well as physically, through his use of a blackened plastic apartment. No light enters and only foreboding sound emanates as one approaches. In his installation ‘The Shape’, Huizinga constructs plastic, blow-up figures that he manipulates, flagellates and terminates during a series of performances in this closed-off and sealed apartment. The audience is offered the opportunity to experience another side of life. www

Roos Hoffmann (nl)
I will present an imagined life of a fake person, and I hope the imagination of the viewer will take the fantasy even further. Because what is the building without lives of all these people? It is an empty book, we can freely fill. www

Suzanne van Rest (nl)
The works above deal with different sides of light, which is the focus of my work at the moment. I am interested in the diversity and complexity of this subject. www

Viola Onderdelinden (nl)
Do you know what is happening in the cellars of the Poptahof?Have you ever been thinking about it? Every house has a cellar, 1,33 x 3 m x3 m high. All the cellars are downstairs in a long corridor. I know that in two boxes bikes can be made. And I assumed that the other cellars tells us that the hirers put all the stuff in here they don’t really need. I have an empty box and I filled it with my own story inspirered by this cellar, and implications of reflections and retreatment. See my story in cellar nr.603 and you can make your own. www