Jij en Ik

Jij en Ik

Exhibition & Book launch
Artist: Annabelle Schatteman & Nina van Dijk

Opening:
Friday April 8th | 18-21 h

Open:
Saturday April 9th | 13-17 h
Sunday April 10th | 13-17 h

Short description:
(Nina)

In the poetry book 'Steeds verder van mij’ (further from me) Nina van Dijk tells a story about love, attraction and repulsion and a deep-seated longing for something that sometimes seems, or turns out to be, unreachable, Poems that are naked, raw, touching, heartwarming and full of love. The book will be presented on April 8, 2022 in the exhibition ‘jij & ik’ (you and me). The book will be published in an edition of 30, handmade and individually bound and packed with great care. Available during the exhibition and afterwards for €35 each.

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In de dichtbundel ‘Steeds verder van mij’ vertelt Nina van Dijk in 27 gedichten één verhaal over de liefde, aantrekken en afstoten en een diepgeworteld verlangen naar iets dat soms onbereikbaar (b)lijkt. Gedichten die naakt zijn, rauw, raak, hartverwarmend en vol liefde.

Op 8 april 2022 zal de bundel uitkomen in de tentoonstelling Jij en Ik. De bundel zal verschijnen in een oplage van 30, handgemaakt en stuk voor stuk met veel aandacht gebonden en verpakt. Tijdens de tentoonstelling en daarna verkrijgbaar voor €35,- per stuk.

In de ruimte is ook een soundscape te horen die ontwikkeld is in samenwerking met componist Merel van Hoek. De soundscape bevat fragmenten uit de dichtbundel ingesproken door de schrijver, aangevuld met het alsmaar doorgaande geluid van het alledaagse. Daarnaast worden er diverse kleine werken gepresenteerd die fragmenten uit de bundel vertalen.

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Short description:
(Annabelle)

In the exhibition ‘jij en ik’ (you and I) Annabelle Schatteman shows the second part of her work called 'under my spell'. The first part was shown in Kadmium Delft at the beginning of 2022 in a duo exhibition with Judith Schepers with the title 'that which grows in the dark'. 

In 'redeeming Belle' the artist takes you through her story in a hand-bound book with printed linocuts. In this she guides the viewer through a dark and alienating world in which a mystery unfolds. The mystery of Belle, which will not show itself easily, but wants to be told. The exhibition will also feature three-dimensional work that translates individual chapters from the book. 

The linoprints are available separately.
Some of the linoprints are printed on t-shirts and are for sale in limited edition for €35,-.

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In de expositie ‘jij & ik’ toont Annabelle Schatteman het tweede deel van het beeldverhaal ‘under my spell’. Het eerste deel was begin 2022 te zien in Kadmium Delft in een duo expositie met Judith Schepers met de titel ‘dat wat groeit in het duister’. 

In ‘redeeming Belle’ neemt de kunstenaar je mee in haar verhaal door middel van een hand gebonden boek met gedrukte linosnedes. Hierin (bege)leidt ze de kijker door een duistere en vervreemdende wereld waarin zich een mysterie ontvouwt. Het mysterie van Belle, dat zich niet zomaar laat zien maar wel degelijk verteld wil worden. 
In de exposite zal ook driedimensionaal werk te zien zijn die afzonderlijk hoofdstukken uit het boek vertalen.

De linoprints zijn apart verkrijgbaar.
Een aantal van de linoprints zijn afgedrukt op t-shirt en in beperkte oplage te koop voor €35,-.

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photography: Anke van den Berg

OMNIPRESENT

OMNIPRESENT

Artist: Douwe Mulder
Solo Exhibition

Openinging:
Friday 19th November
Doors open at 5 - 10 pm.
Soup at 6 pm.

20 - 28th November
Saturdays and Sundays
from 1 – 5 pm

Short description:
"As a maker I am always looking for unexpected aesthetic experiences. In my studio I try to make ordinary (found) objects and materials and emerging ideas talk to each other. Even though the conversation might start off boring or without focus, there always comes a moment when it becomes interesting and starts to take on a life of its own. This exhibition shows the latest works and insights from that experimental creative process." - Douwe Mulder
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"Als maker ben ik altijd op zoek naar onverwachte esthetische ervaringen. In mijn studio probeer ik alledaagse en veelal gevonden voorwerpen en materialen en opkomende ideeën met elkaar in gesprek te brengen. Ook al begint dat gesprek soms saai of zonder focus er komt altijd een moment dat de conversatie interessant wordt en een eigen leven begint te leiden. In deze expositie zijn de laatste werken en inzichten uit dat experimentele maakproces te zien." - Douwe Mulder

photography: Anke van den Berg

Financially supported by:

Stroom Den Haag

RECOLORY

RECOLORY

Artist: Jorick de Quaasteniet, Anouck Hus and Elina Alekseeva

Multi-sensory project: Transforming kitchen waste, cultivated and wild plants into sustainable textile dyes

Open:
Saturday November 6TH, 12-17 h
Saturday November 13TH, 12-17 h

Thanks to the Municipality of The Hague, Fleur Beemster and Nico de Voogd for making the video

Short description:
A multi- sensory experience at the See Lab Project Space; To transform kitchen waste, cultivated and wild plants into sustainable textile dyes. Inspired by our immediate environment the Gardener, the Forager and the Cook, work with local and natural element to create new stories through personal memories and a textile artwork. A temporary Lab and exhibition where visitors can engage and witness
the creative process

Photography: Anke van den Berg

Financially supported by: Gemeente Den Haag

TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE

TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE

Artist: Anna Lesiczka, Alicja Mackiewicz, Maria Ilieva, Mina Yee, Nabila Ayu Aviani

Curated and proposed by: Yan-Zhi Kang

Open: 24-26TH OF SEPTEMBER
friday 17-22, saturday 13-22, sunday 13-22
Exhibition opening: 24TH OF SEPTEMBER 17.00H

Short description: As part of Hoogtij #66, Take Me Somewhere Nice creates a heterotopic space within See Lab by arranging collected objects chosen by the artists in juxtaposition to the space and to each other.

The artists are assigned to create a specific environment or collect objects with particular intimate stories, symbols, memories or personal values to the artist - and this approach allows the opportunity to gather seemingly random objects that are almost unrelated to each other.

This juxtaposition of objects in an art space creates a sense of the other, which refers to the previously mentioned heterotopia. Because of these myriad of memories, the space may function like a time capsule, or an archive, as the objects stacks time infinitely.

For every person playing in a different role, this space, which is structured outside the existing system, order, norms and values, has different and unique functions and meanings.The final balance found in the incompatibility may be "somewhere nice".

Sharing Circle - A participatory event on the opening night:

Picture that journey you took home from the supermarket everyday when you were young.
A neighbour’s neglected garden, with unruly plants,
A local market on a busy and warm Saturday morning, with all the bright colours of produce and layered noise of sellers yelling their bargained prices,
The quiet corner you spent your time at in elementary school.
Where is a nice place for you? Close your eyes. What do you see? What can you feel?
Maybe you can feel the warmth of the sun greeting your eyelids,
Or gusts of wind dancing through your ears.
In our sharing circle, we invite all of you to join us, and to share where that nice place is for you, and to go on that imaginary trip together, one after another. There are no rules- you are free to share as little or as many as you want, whenever you want.

The circle will unfold in an organic manner - no moderators will be present, no recording. We strive towards a warm conversation between ourselves.

The sharing circle will take place on the 24th of September, from 19:00.

photography: Anke van den Berg

I'M NOT WHERE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE

I'm Not Where I'm Supposed To Be

Artist: Biba Cole, Alejandra López and Daisy Madden-Wells

Hosted by: Helena Sanders - sea-legs.net

Instagram Livestream: 5TH MARCH, 20:00 H
March 6th and 7th:

Visit In Person, by Appointment Only : 1 person per 30 minute slot, between the hours of 12:00 and 17:00 - contact: dmaddenwells@gmail.com

Short description: As part of Hoogtij #64, artists Biba Cole, Alejandra López and Daisy Madden-Wells let you in on a narrative-based show of negligible plot. At See Lab project space they will allow their practices to overlap and seep into each other, both inhabiting, and guiding the viewer through the space via drawing, sculpture, soundtrack and moving image. The central theme of ‘sneaking’ will loom large, exacerbated by the atmosphere of precarity that currently surrounds us. What it means to sneak, to be a sneak — to be present, absent, or perhaps somewhere in between.

They ask: when you live and move on the cusp of remonstration, what does it mean to make your way through a space? Is creeping/sneaking/sauntering a choice, or is it foisted upon you by those who would make you unwelcome? 

Am I creeping, or do you just not want me here? Presenting... a wandering path for creeps and saunterers, exploring the uncanniness of proximity; the closer you get, the more nonsensical things become.

I’m not where I’m supposed to be.

Am I creeping, or do you just not want me here? Presenting... a wandering path for creeps and saunterers, exploring the uncanniness of proximity; the closer you get, the more nonsensical things become.

Iʼm not where Iʼm supposed to be.

Artist Bios

Biba Cole (UK) is an interdisciplinary artist who examines the relationships between her own body, water, and writing, as vessels that are continually overflowing. Positioning failures as generative actions, giving value to slippages from known languages.The moving body has no edges: it leaks, expands, and retracts. Swimming in pools of excess material - questions of productive action, consumption, language, disgust, and desire emerge.

Alejandra López is an artist born in Elche, Spain, and based in The Hague. Her practice seeks to question how visual, and material languages have an effect on the way we feel. Thinking through drawing in order to re-frame and digest found imagery, stories, and personal encounters. concerned with ideas of coexistence with non humanness, and non verbal communication, with ways of accessing the world we live in without conquering or controlling it. Focusing on sensation and feeling, exploring immediate surroundings and materialities. Her work manifests as installation, drawing, sculpture, and moving image.

Daisy Madden-Wells is a multidisciplinary artist and Pisces, born in South London, and currently based in den Haag. She works from an adoration for the decorative — where form and material grapple with each other, aiming to achieve a groovy dissonance. At present her artistic concerns include playing with the lineage and mutations of heraldic forms and ritual, their hidden violence, and the use of non-humanness to explore humanity.

About Hoogtij #64:On Friday 5 March you can visit Hoogtij from 7 p.m. Each participant makes a film especially for this evening, which can be viewed below at the locations. You can find here also more info about the video and/or exhibition on hoogtij.net.

photography: Anke van den Berg

Video by: Jesse Siegel