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Sunday 19 February: Giulia Cenci – closing event

Closing event for Giulia Cenci – dry salvages

Sunday 19 February, 17 – 19 hrs
with a video by Johan van Dijke and a commissioned text work by Nadia de Vries
Bar open 17 hrs
Video/audio presentation: [removed] hrs

Amsterdam based artist Johan van Dijke has a background in painting and recently started working with digital videos, often collaborating with [removed];Five Songs is a response to Cenci’s exhibition, envisioning an alternative gallery [removed];Boxed-in figures mechanically tune in to the scrambled sentences of the waste land. In approaching them we see them from within, in disorienting [removed];

Nadia de Vries is a poet and cultural scholar from Amsterdam. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Know Thy Audience (Moist Books, 2023), and also writes in Dutch. She holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, and is an editor at Flemish cultural journal nY.

The public program with our current exhibition series Turning to Dust and Bones is 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 is closely following the program in order to write the central essay for the series.

Main space: Giulia Cenci – dry salvages – on view until 19 February

Giulia Cenci – dry salvages
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 5
Until 19 February, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

V. What the Thunder Said

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience

(…)

P/////AKTPOOL is hosting Reneenee – on view until 19 February

Reneenee presents Beng Yuenyong – Mount Meru and the Three Realms
Until 19 February, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Mount Meru and the Three Realms is Beng Yuenyong’s first solo exhibition and is showing the results of the research he has been conducting since 2019. The title of the work refers to the sacred mountain in Buddhist and Hindu cosmology; it is the place where the three realms earth, atmosphere and sky meet and the different planes of existence or mortals, spirits, demons and gods intersect. Yuenyong is presenting a sculptural installation, paintings and an [removed];Like Mount Meru, this exhibition aims to be a site of intersection – combining three themes that are at the base of his artistic practice: religion, consumerism and science.

Photograph by Beng Yuenyong and Ariane Toussaint