I am very pleased to have been invited to participate in the new NDSM FUSE Expo: Nieuw New Babylon as part of Stichting la Jetée’s exhibit about the Window Show. It’s really exciting to be participating in show for the opening day. The whole show runs until 10 June 2024, and my portion will be on display until 21 April, when my predecessor from the residency, Esmee Mlihi Terraneo will set up her portion, and, as thematically appropriate, the presentation from Stichting la Jetée is called “Passing the Baton.”
Salvation Initial Install ©2024
The work I’ve installed is an edited set of the Salvation project done for my residency and includes three suspended works, six standing works, a floor installation, the conceptual text from the Window Show opening for Useless Objects, and the short film, “Cross Born.”
Salvation Installation: Cable Suspension ©2024
Salvation Install - Rope Cross ©2024
Salvation Installation, Wire Sculptures ©2024
Salvation Installation, Red Room ©2024
Salvation is a conceptual sculpture project begun as a durational exercise of salvage work. It acts in layers. The base layer is an act of care. Each item in the show was discarded or left behind or broken on the ground. Most were fragments of former goods, and often they were unidentifiable. All were scavenged from the area around NDSM. It became a practice of cleaning up the environs and treating the place as sacred, and also of treating the broken pieces as important and valuable. The next layer is a time keeping device. Over 31 days, a non-consecutive month, little collections were made in discreet finding sessions, thus, each grouping represents one day out of a month. Taken together, they are a materialized calendar of active moments, a renewed way to see time as action, as non-linear, as something that can be shifted around and visualized. The next layer is re-imagining. I chose objects that were interesting to me and reconsidered them as items with potential for creative expression. I repurposed what was unwanted and useless, with the goal of achieving something newly interesting, re-valued, and perhaps beautiful.