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Daily truths: Work by resident artists
Opening Friday 10 December at 19.00
Duende resident artists Momu & No Es and Fionna Murray, together with Keren Cytter, Arnoud Holleman and Martijn in ’t Veld
Opening Friday 10 December at 19.00
Exhibition open Sat 11 - Sun 12 December 13.00-18.00
Momu & No Es’ video installations present surreal and seemingly absurd worlds, which are rendered believable through a framework in which the reality suggested is composed of significant objects and characters with intrinsic and stable qualities. These fictional realities allow them to inhabit alternative modes of thinking or being posing the obvious conjuncture: what if?
Fionna Murray’s paintings take form from ideas of home, and an ordering of one’s immediate surroundings, but they are not ‘homely’. Instead they hint at fleeting moments of loneliness and insight in the midst of the everyday. Whilst retaining a distance that belongs to the sphere of the painting itself, in the struggles between representation and the physical matter of painting. Using photographs, film stills and remembered things as source material, her drawings and paintings are an accumulation of small truths and unexpected discoveries.
“I am interested in what the piece of gum under my shoe can tell me about the world.” Martijn in’t Veld’s sculptures stem from small, seemingly inconsequential observations, which he takes on a playful journey into the literary and philosophical qualities of the everyday. Through this he connects small objects of daily use to a bigger conceptual framework, where they become protagonists in a metaphysically orientated philosophy, often both humorous and serious in character.
Arnoud Holleman’s oeuvre spans a diversity of media: film, drawing, photography, theater and television; often revisiting old works that require renewed attention. His works are often only complete after the addition of his own textual analysis is integrated. Throughout the relation between image and text plays a central role. This attitude of continued reviewing reflects a deeply felt distrust of the image. Who is handling the image and with what presumptions and intentions?
Keren Cytter’s video works deconstructs cinematic norms picking up on its affective resonance but dismissing a linear structural logic. They wrap interpersonal social relations in a cyclic tapestry of desire, voyeurism, alienation and miscommunication. Figures appear out of sync with each other and the camera; exposing an inherent failure to connect.
Momu & No Es
Fionna Murray
Martijn in 't Veld
