Childhood, love and money
Vincent Verhoef, Ulises Carrión, Christina Li, Martin La Roche

Opening 1 October, 16 – 20 hrs
Exhibition open: 5 October – 29 October
Thursday – Sunday, 14 – 18 hrs

Childhood, love and money features works by the historical conceptual artist Ulises Carrión, curator and writer Christina Li, and artists Martin La Roche and Vincent Verhoef. The exhibition’s title draws upon associations with the colour green. Over the centuries the colour green has been linked to various transient aspects of life: childhood, love, hope, luck, play, chance and money. Historically greens remained chemically unstable, in painting, in dyes and in meanings. While the colours would gradually lose their vibrancy, our associations with them would undergo a transformation. This unstable nature of the colour green might provide a loose and flexible framework to think about the works presented in the show.

Vincent Verhoef, co-organizer of Amsterdam art space rongwrong, received a carte-blanche to create a presentation in which his own practice formed the starting point to invite others. This exhibition is a continuation of a series of collaborative projects that took place in the former P/////AKTPOOL from March 2022 through April 2023. As a celebration of initiative-initiated exhibitions – a celebration of the initiative, of its dedicated organizers and of the many talented artists that they (re)present and care for – this next episode is focusing on the artist as an artist and organizer.

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Special Case #1 was produced especially for the exhibition The plastic model and her plastic response by Brigitte Louter.
The box consists of: the exhibition poster, hand-out and documentation, a commissioned text by curator/philosopher Audrius Pocius, drawing reproductions, handmade objects produced by Brigitte herself and more! This portable exhibition/thinking space/archive/collectible comes in a cardboard box designed by Dongyoung Lee, as well as a free downloadable pdf. Order it here!

The ‘Special Case’ is a new series of dossiers containing texts, documentation and materials related to the artists’ surrounding thoughts and the presentations themselves.

Our new publication is out and will be available from 1 October onwards!

Turning to Dust and Bones (April 2022 – April 2023) was a series of six consecutive solo exhibitions loosely dealing with the subconscious, memory and the traces of being uprooted. It featured Anders Dickson, Koen Kloosterhuis, Kristina Sedlerova-Villanen, Aslan Goisum, Giulia Cenci and Rodrigo Herná[removed];

The public program was moderated by DIG – the Internet Guide of literature magazine De Gids, with editors Asha Karami, in charge of selecting contributors for additional texts and events, and Fabienne Rachmadiev, who closely followed the program in order to write the central essay for the series.

Turning to Dust and Bones constituted the last part of a trilogy of exhibition series that began in 2020 with The Space Conductors Are Among Us and continued with Am I an Object in 2021.
 
Graphic design: Dongyoung Lee
Exhibition photography: Charlott Markus
Print: Wilco Art Books, in an edition of 250

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P/////AKT would like to thank:

Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Gemeente Amsterdam.