Stichting Egress Foundation Salon extended and other things

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Dear friends, colleagues, comrades and subscribers of this list, it feels a bit weird to send you an email on a Sunday morning, I guess it is my catholic education? Anyway, I have been trying to send you this one for a few days, but it has been very hectic, for the good! If last time I started sharing with you some images of the landscape of Madrid covered in snow now I also have to share some beautiful images of people ice skating in the Dutch canals, something that apparently does not happens so often but everyone is ready for it (not me though).

Anyway, what I wanted to communicate with this email is not these things, but I think it is good to warm up. The Stichting Egress Foundation Salon, that was scheduled to finish today, 14th of February, will be extended until the 28th of February as I have been getting more and more people who wanted to come and see it. I never thought I would extend the show that I have been hosting for the longest time, but in these estrange times I also understand that it takes different times for different people to visit things.

In case you can not visit the show I answered some questions to the the platform Collecteurs where I speak about this specific show and some past and future projects of Tilde. And how much I love hosting:

Collecteurs: What are the pros and cons of hosting an exhibit in your living room?
Diego Diez: I really love hosting. I love every aspect of it, from thinking about the project to the last day of the show and wrapping up. I love having people over—artists, curators, or just anyone. I love offering coffee, tea, or maybe just a glass of water. I love when people maybe stay a bit longer, and it is lunch or dinner time, and we cook something together. I love to tell you how much I like the work of my friends I have shown, like Maria Nolla Mateos or Sara Milio, and how their work is connected to the work of more established artists they showed with, like Francisco de Goya y Lucientes or Laure Prouvost. I love the moments with the artists and the moments alone with the work.

The cons? When the work has to leave, but it is only for the best, because I love when the next one comes!

Another path that I have take to share this exhibition with a larger audience has been to create a Tinder account for the space. So far this has been very enriching into bringing different type of viewers to the exhibition and the platform Cosmos Carl decided to feature the project, so, in case you have Tinder, we can also chat there!

To wrap up I will like to bring your attention to something that happens very rarely, an exhibition where I am showing work myself. During the past months I have been working with Pam Virada in this project titled The Mirror that opened last week in the space Plan B in Amsterdam Noord. The exhibition is visible 24/7 from the window (well, not 24/7 because there is a curfew, but you get it) and there are some Easter eggs that you can see if you would like to check it out from inside. If so, please, write me!

I will be sending around one email per month and my apologies if you do not want to be in this list, please unsubscribe. You can also follow some of the updates through the website, instagram or facebook. Please, if you do have any feedback, question or proposal in relation to the project do not hesitate to contact me.

Talk soon,
Diego Diez P.