12/05/2017 - 16/07/2017
Garage, Amsterdam
group show curated by Hanne Hagenaars and Heske ten Cate
with Hans Aarsman, Sayaka Abe, Björn Dahlem, Kim van Erven, Nina Glockner, Harry Haarsma, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Vika Mitrichenko, Florin Mitroi, Ria Mul, Marc Mulders, Ana Navas, Eva Spierenburg, Jay Tan & Evelyn Taocheng Wang
photo 1: Bas Czerwinski
“When Eva Spierenburg's mother died, she developed a fascination for the dying body. Humility only exists when there is no longer any identity, no longer an ego. Dying can also be seen as a form of humility, a no-man's-land between presence and absence. A body will only die as the ego slowly ebbs away. Spierenburg's work represents this intermediate form, a state of being and non-being. A small red object of solidified transparent plastic material, for example, suggests the transformation of death. ‘’I imagined how all a body’s lifeblood sinks to the bottom and coagulates. This then, is coagulated life, I thought.’ Spierenburg also took photographs of wet clay, because what other ways exist for retaining this pliable soft form?”
- catalogue text by Lieneke Hulshof
