FLAT_land 04
Sunday August 2nd 1-5 pm Potahof Delft (nl)

bij wijze van SPREKEN (artist talk) with presentations of Allison Nichol (ca), Hidenori Mitsue (jp), Jasmine Ellis (ca), Lisa van Bommel (de) and Merryn Kritzinger (ca) about their work at FLAT_land.

_galerij_loop_04_____ (exhibition) with work from Allison Nichol (ca), Hidenori Mitsue (jp), Jasmine Ellis (ca), Jolanda Jansen (nl), Lisa van Bommel (de), Merryn Kritzinger (ca), Myrthe Rootsaert (nl), Nina Gloudemans (nl) and Viola Onderdelinden (nl).

Allison Nichol, Jasmine Ellis, Merryn Kritzinger (ca)
About our house: there is a world where three girls have many friends, but hadn't seen one another for the reign of two canadian prime ministers. Circumstance had them here, there, everywhere, but each sitting and drinking tea ... until id11 offered them a country - the netherlands, a town - delft, a neighbourhood - poptahof, and house 156 in which to weave their web and drink their tea.
Meet jasmine. with a head that spins film. She saddens how transient they are to each other's lives, dependency, codependency, how it is to live together, need together, and live alone.
Meet merryn. Merryn sleeps in the closet. Merryn eats in the closet. Merryn likes small spaces (being a short person). So merryn put Jasmine in a closet. how vastly different we are alone than when surrounded by others. A person by oneself is a beautiful creature. Merryn's world has become a closet filled with secrets, conscious & unconscious patterns, and habits. one girl alone and one girl with you?
Meet allison. she has carried her work across great distances nestled in her lower back from the land of Geneva, to the rough terrain of montreal, and to our house – it comes to rest on two bodies, two solos in space. Allison speaking in tongues: “the physicality of the work is an entry point for conceptual analysis and examines, through kinesthetic experience, the conversational and communicative capabilities of the human body through such realities as hesitation, vulnerability and repetition. the physicalisation of false starts, of broaching a subject as well as the so often cyclical nature of conversation are put forth in different forms … the subtleties of the physicality of human interaction and the duality of space—the public versus the private..”
Alone, the girls would have been lonely, so from the woodwork came friends without foe. Yael (il) of prize and encouragement, gil (il) of laughs and grandness, hope (usa) whose eyes click life into still, henning (de) of song and line, ben & dan (au) of same blood and shared cans of paint, chris (es) of digital life, and hopping liset, hostess of delft.
Welcome to our house, in the middle of our street. www

Hidenori Mitsue (jp)
With 'Imitatism' Hidenori Mitsue explores at FLAT_land his conscious appropriation of ‘the superficiality’, which he considers a contemporary Japanese behavior characteristic. What is the personal character, or individual background for his working methodology as a Japanese painter? While using paint as the medium to reflect these ideas he made four new works while staying in Delft. However, his residency was not an act nor performance to obtain a result nor just a search for answers, rather a ‘trip’ for one Japanese in the world of the art. www

Jolanda Janssen (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

Lisa van Bommel (de)
My work is inspired by the fact that people have to leave their homes and privacy. It’s about leaving and staying, about see-saw, stagnation, waiting, leaving, talking, looking, contacts and boredom. The search in life for being fixed and rooted. www

Myrthe Rootsaert (nl)
The objects I construct are made from recycled materials.
The way in which these materials are combined seem to give the object a complete new function. In case of the FLAT_land installation in the cellar I used a light-box I found at the secondhand-shop. I think it was made by a technical student. My associations were clear when I switched the box on. The flickering light reminds me of a moth that is always flying towards a light source. And that’s exactly what I think every human being is doing. www

Nina Gloudemans (nl)
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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