Opening exhibition program Feb - Jun 2018
'The Story Within and Beyond 'examines the manifestation and the potential of a “narrative” from various perspectives and throughout different media. It takes place from February until June and brings four duo exhibitions and two performances of mainly Hague young emerging artists. It's See Lab's aim to offer the new project space to artists of different disciplines so they can experiment and create new works or develop the existing ones in relation to the See Lab exhibition space or the surrounding Hague Beach. The exhibitions and the performances will be accompanied by artists' talks, workshops, and a poetry reading.
Please take a look at the full program at ISSUU
Part I: HISTORIAE
Tommy de Moor, Roman Ermolaev
February 2nd- February 18th
OPENING: Friday, February 2nd, 19:00 h
ARTIST TALK: Friday, February 16th, 20:00 h
Open: Fri - Sun - 13:00 - 17:00 h
Ermolaev and De Moor approach the subject of history on various levels, with very layered artworks and a high demand for aesthetics as the outcome. In their works history is juxtaposed with the contemporary society, art history with contemporary visual arts, and finally, they transform different kinds of historical or literary narratives into interdisciplinary art installations by combining different kinds of techniques such as 16mm film and digital media and also Pepper's ghost (Ermolaev) or enfleurage and mummification (De Moor).
Excerpt text: Neva Lukić
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Part II: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
Barbara de Morree & Elske Verdoorn
March 2nd- March 18th
OPENING: Friday, March 2nd, 19:00 h
WORKSHOP: March 9th, 17:00 h
Open: Fri - Sun - 13:00 - 17:00 h
This exhibition focuses on the „personal narrative of others.“ With the strong sense of ethics, the artists Barbara De Morree and Elske Verdoorn are giving a voice to special, anonymous Hague persons, erasing the boundaries between the persona of the observing artist and the persona of her inspiration. In these uncommon cases the objects of inspiration become subjects. This time the artists will create new works or investigate the existing ones from different perspectives, especially for the See Lab exhibition space.
Excerpt text: Neva Lukić
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Part III: REMOTE PASSAGES
Annija Muižule & Katarina Petrović
April 6th- April 22nd
Open: Fri - Sun - 13:00 - 17:00 h
Both Annija Muižule and Katarina Petrović use impersonal narratives in the interdisciplinary way in order to create an interplay within different media and to criticize the capitalist techno-marketing society. In a dystopian way Petrović uses J.L. Borges Two English poems (1934) as the input text to deconstruct the language and to decipher Jupiter planetary emissions, and Muižule transforms the visual medium of photography into textual exploration of existential image culture.
Part IVa: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
May 4th - May 20th
Emilie Ruitinga & Nienke Sikkema
Open: Fri - Sun - 13:00 - 17:00 h
Part IVb: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
May 30th- June 1st
Natalie Fyfe & Katerina Sidorova
Performances: June 1st, 19:00 h
All the World's a Stage part IVa exhibition (Nienke Sikkema, Emilie Ruitinga) and part IVb the performance program (Natalie Fyfe, Katerina Sidorova) focus on "the stage" as a possible place for creating and recreating stories, lives and identities, reversing an inner world stage into an outer (public) world stage and vice versa. It also examines the fragility of the human body and the exposure of one's intimacy to the outside world.
''The Story Within and Beyond' is a project of: Neva Lukić & Anke van den Berg. Please take a look at the full program at ISSUU and here. The Story Within and Beyond is Made possible with the help of all See Lab members. Financial supported by Gemeente Den Haag, Stroom Den Haag and See Lab.