The event is part of the southexplorer.nl program
20-21 April, 2024
From 12 noon to 5pm
Drinks in the garden on Sunday from 5pm
NAVXJA, Mesut Öztürk, Antonin Gerson, Angie Savelli and Vico Persson.
Foundation Bad, NAC foundation, and Paviljoen aan het Water present We Are All Guests #13, a group exhibition featuring their current resident artists
NAVXJA
Navxja is the pseudonym of afrocolombian artist Naomy Salge. Her work pushes the bounds between disciplines merging different mediums to create experimental proposals with music as the main center. She focuses on music experimentation, performance and art curation with a strong political and identitary charge behind her projects.
Mesut Öztürk
Bulgarian – Turkish artist and architect Mesut Öztürk extends his pursuit of history of architecture into sculpture making. While employing ceramics as the main medium, he investigates the human beings’ relationship with transcendentality through human-made spaces, with the functionless micro-architectures he made as tools for thought. The sublime of ancient spiritual places and artefacts in Anatolia has a significant role in his practice. In his architectural abstraction, while some forms can be traced back to ancient structures, some others remain ambiguous. Yet, all forms can be read as part of the same research, the humans’ quest for a meaning within the themes of eternity, temporariness, balance, coexistence and bonds.
Dela Savelli & Antonin Gerson
Antonin Gerson was born in 1991 in Nantes (FR). He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 2016. He lives in Brussels and works between France and Belgium. very sensitive to the noises around him Antonin Gerson has cultivated this sound dimension as a common thread in his work. Alongside field recording and sampling linked to the experience of putting sound into space, Antonin Gerson has not abandoned a musical practice initiated when he was 6 years old at the Conservatory.
Long Distance Close Call
Not hearing each other but listening to each other. Speak and become frequency. Let ourselves be transformed by a membrane and trust the electrical signal to export our bodies and make them find each other. Long distance close call is composed of two distinct sound performances proposed by Dela Savelli and Antonin Gerson. Between synthetic compositions and glitchy vocals, Dela Savelli is a musical artist who uses impulsivity as her primary creative tool. Sensitive to the noises around him, Antonin Gerson has cultivated listening as a common thread in his work and offers a performance questioning this relationship.
Vico Persson
Vico Persson freely mixes materials such as painting, drawing, and collage. There is an aspect of contrast or dualism present in his practice: the works often take abstract forms but are mostly rooted in concrete ideas and observations from everyday life, technology, or literature. With his work, Vico aims to offer autonomous creations that can exist apart from social norms and politics, yet at the same time, question societal structures, and the impact of modern technology on our perception.
After his studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Dutch Art Institute, Vico had along pause from his individual autonomous art making. Instead, he worked collaboratively on International exhibition projects, mainly in Paris and Ghent, but also in the United States, Italy, Ireland, and Senegal. In 2022, he returned to the art studio, where he is currently spending most of his time.
Anne Kolbe
“I examine the performative nature of mute and everyday objects, speculating and reflecting on their doings, dealings, desires and demands. Whether it’s a pot plant, a flower vase, or a tabletop; they all resonate in many ways. In their presence, I too become an object with many echoes.”
Anne Kolbe studied fine art at Sint Joost Den Bosch (2023) and Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam (2018). She works with a variety of media, mostly on the borders of performance, sculpture, and installation. Through these media she examines ways of becoming other through the body, by blurring the lines between herself and her surroundings. With her body as her main tool and material, she creates spatial characters who are ready for the drama of life.
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