Last chance for our current exhibition and closing event | Sunday 29 October

Item from the Magic Box ([removed], Box 116), among the David Wojnarowicz Papers, at the Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University. Photo courtesy by the artist.

Sunday 29 October, 17 – 19 hrs
(exhibition open from 14 hrs)

As a finale to Childhood, Love and Money, Martín La Roche presents the Musée Légitime – a museum within a hat. Each artist in the collection contributes a small or immaterial piece that can fit inside the hat while worn by the artist. On various occasions, the artist curates a selection of pieces, tucks them inside the hat, and goes for a walk while wearing the museum. When the opportunity arises, he reveals the pieces one by one, sharing their stories and those of the authors. Currently, there are 172 pieces within eleven museum buildings (hats).

For this closing act, a special selection of pieces pays homage to David Wojnarowicz’s “Magic [removed]#8221; Found beneath the New York artist’s bed after his 1992 passing due to AIDS complications, this enigmatic wooden fruit box and its contents, which Wojnarowicz never addressed in his lifetime, serve as the starting point for Martin La Roche’s contemplations about childhood memories and queer space.

Childhood, love and money

5 October – 29 October
Thursday – Sunday, 14 – 18 hrs

Of emperor Nero dressed in green
it is said
that he watched the chariot races
through an emerald
to protect his eyes
against the sun.
Of medieval scribes centuries later
it is said
that they rested their eyes
from copying their manuscripts
by staring at an emerald.

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.

*Parts of the text are inspired by Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau

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Our latest publication Turning to Dust and Bones is now available here on our website and also on view in our bookshop!

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 Hernández.

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 the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts