PLEASE NOTE: PARK IS CLOSED ON SECOND CHRISTMAS DAY. OPEN ON SATURDAY 27 AND SUNDAY 28 DECEMBER.
PARK presents, in collaboration with Neil Fortune (GY, 1983), the exhibition Quadrilogue, featuring works by Valerie van Leersum, Jabu Arnell, Yasser Ballemans, Christiaan Bastiaans, Antonio José Guzman & Iva Jankovic, and Yda Sinay.
Quadrilogue presents a spatial and sensory conversation in which each work opens up its own world while simultaneously connecting with the other works and worlds. In this group exhibition, the artists explore how encounter, material and space can together become a form of exchange.
In PARK's high-ceilinged exhibition space, Quadrilogue focuses not on verbal dialogue, but rather on the way in which the artists influence and question each other through their work. From different artistic positions, they explore how personal, political and communal perspectives intersect.
Neil Fortune
Fortune is known for his textile installations, sculptures, drawings and architectural works. His projects are explorations of themes such as transformation, social engagement, identity, origin, nature, religion and architecture. Through his use of materials, he investigates how they can convey stories and shift conventions.
His earlier projects, such as Neil and Strangers (2010) and Social Sculpture (2012), led to his current project, Traces of a Conversation, in which drawings and dialogues shape the work.
He was born in Guyana and moved to Suriname at the age of six. He was the first artist from Suriname to be invited to participate in the exchange project between the Nola Hatterman Institute, the art academy in Paramaribo, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
Valerie van Leersum
Valerie van Leersum works as an artist, designer and local explorer. Through her work, she explores the relationship between people and landscape and the deep connection with a place. She creates images and installations constructed from various media using objects, text, audio, collages and photography. In recent years, Valerie van Leersum has increasingly focused her work on transitional areas: those places where natural entities merge and boundaries blur. There, where nothing is unambiguous, a deep connection arises and a memory of the interconnectedness of everything.
Jabu Arnell
Jabu Arnell is an artist born in Sint Maarten who lives in Amsterdam. In his work, he explores personal context, space, movement, difference and the performativity of language. He experiments with found materials and encounters and incorporates sculpture, video, sound and light.
Yasser Ballemans
In his contemporary work, Ballemans explores ways to create platforms for interactive, collective and interdisciplinary creativity. He is particularly interested in the role of art in rituals such as parades, campfires, carnivals and commemorations, and investigates how ornaments, decorations and traditional techniques can be integrated into contemporary art practice. Collective artistic processes are central to his research into the role of art in stimulating social and democratic renewal.
Christiaan Bastiaans
Christiaan Bastiaans' oeuvre unfolds as a network of stories, voices and encounters. Working in film, sculpture, photography, drawing, installation and performance, since the mid-1980s he has been searching for forms that can bear the vulnerability and rebelliousness of human existence. In his NOTEBOOKS, he collects observations, fragments, thoughts and traces of travels and encounters.
In PARK, a broad, coherent selection of these NOTEBOOKS is being shown for the first time. In dialogue with this core of his oeuvre, Bastiaans presents a new work on paper and a recent sculptural work. He also brings a work of art by Natasja Straat to PARK that is of special significance to him.
Antonio José Guzman & Iva Jankovic
Visual artists Antonio José Guzman & Iva Jankovic reinterpret transatlantic colonial history and shared memories in their performances. Jankovic was born in Belgrade. Guzman was born in Panama and has a diverse background with different ethnicities.
In Quadrilogue, Topologies of Memory: A Study of Isomorphic Algorithms is on display. This is a multi-part installation that explores how digital memory, ancestral knowledge and textile cosmology are intertwined through patterns, code and sound. The work draws on the early visual language of digital culture, retro science fiction films and the heartbeat of Caribbean rhythms from the 1990s.
Yda Sinay
In her visual work, Yda Sinay explores how matter and identity shape each other. Her practice moves between sculpture and installation, with materials serving as carriers of personal and collective stories. Central to her work is the concept of the quadrilogue — an interaction between “multiple voices” that often appear in her work: identity, materiality, scent and freedom of movement. The choice of cloves as a material is not random and refers to her Moluccan roots. This material functions as a voice in an ongoing dialogue. Like a multiple conversation that questions the movement between the boundaries of memory, object and space. By collecting, constructing and transforming, Sinay creates an installation in which meaning is constantly in flux.
The exhibition will open on Saturday 20 December at 4pm in the presence of the participating artists. You are warmly invited.
On this day, PARK will be open from 3pm.
Click here for the flyer of the exhibition.
In the media:
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