Please join us to celebrate the last moments of the last exhibition of our current series Turning to Dust and Bones – also the last project in our beloved space. Daphne Huisden has written a commissioned text work for the occasion and Lisa Plaut will present a sculpture in response to the exhibition;

(…) Rodrigo’s backstory of two lovers unable to achieve a fusion and the tray where objects can slide, made me think of the flow of fluids, and the motion of fluid containers (…) The chain mail is a knit that can follow curves, together with Anouck Grenet, a maille specialist in Paris, we designed a pattern with different ring sizes that would highlight the curvy aspect of the pack, and  tightened it with a ribbon. Chain mail was used to make undergarments used by the military, the revival of the craft as a hobby today is maybe because of its slowness.

Lisa Plaut’s practice of sculpture and drawings explores how standardisation impacts the production of the self. She was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academie, 2021 and currently works in Amsterdam and Paris.

Daphne Huisden made her debut at the end of 2010 at Prometheus Publishers with the novel Everything is always fiction, which was nominated for the Academica Literature Prize and included by Wim Brands in the anthology Dutch literature of the 21st century. In 2013, her second book This Remains Between Us was published, and nominated for the Halewijn Prize in the same year. Her third novel, Charlatans, was published in 2021. She has also published various articles and short stories, in literary magazines such as Das Magazin, Tirade, and the Rotterdam-katern of NRC [removed];

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Rodrigo Hernández – Carrés
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 6

Rodrigo Hernández (Mexico, 1983) lives in Mexico City. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2013-2014. He has been a fellow of the Laurenz-Haus Stiftung in Basel (2015), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and the Cité International des Arts in Paris (2016), Istanbul Modern (2019). 
Recent solo exhibitions include: Wattis Institute, San Francisco US (upcoming); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, D; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX; Swiss Institute, New York, US; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, CO; Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki, FI; CIAJG, Guimaraes, PT; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Pîvo, São Paulo; Kunsthalle Winterthur, CH; Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis; SALTS, Basel; Kim?, Riga ; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, MX

Carrés is a brand new project, marking the 6th and final episode of the exhibition series Turning to Dust and Bones

Special thanks to Emiel Zeno
Photograph by Charlott Markus

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Laurel presents Lorena Solís Bravo – The guest, the host & the ghost

“We are not just human, we are many things”, says Lorena Solís Bravo (1991). In their work, the artist investigates what it means to be human and how we are inextricably linked to the world around us. They start from the symbiotic idea that evolution is driven by cooperation rather than by struggle. Instead of microorganisms eating each other millions of years ago, they started forming new living structures that made new forms of life possible.
Solís Bravo’s work builds on this harmonious idea by asking questions about what makes us human and what defines our identity. A recurring theme is the idea of ‘the other’: who you are is determined by how you relate to the people around you, but also by everything non-human around us, such as bacteria, living and non-living matter, and anything that deviates from the ‘norm’.
In the process of creating and filming the video work The guest, the host & the ghost, Solís Bravo left for Brazil and developed workshops and choreography for 7 performers, in collaboration with choreographer Fernanda Libman and music producer upsammy.

Read the full text by Milo Vermeire here.

About Laurel:
At the core of Laurel, there are three central yearnings: the ability to navigate care, to learn, and the possibility to connect with others. We see Laurel as both a physical and online community that offers real involvement through open collaborative projects – one that explores conversations on the meaning, reasoning and processes behind our collective core beliefs. Since Laurel finds itself in a transitory stage; a state of nomadism, we are currently occupied with appearing in other cultural spaces that are willing to host questions of (non)belonging, and to explore the capability of communities to exist in a broader [removed];

Installation view, The guest, the host & the ghost, 25min, 2 channel film, 2023, photograph by Lorena Solís Bravo

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

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.