JOEY RAMONE

Josephstraat 166 - 168 3014 TX Rotterdam
Thu - Sat 12.00 - 17.00
and by appointment
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9 May–27 Jun
‘The Floor is Lava - 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳' – Kunstpodium T – Apprentice/Master Program: Domas van Wijk, Anna Musikhina, Mikołaj Stojanowicz, Tair Uria, Junying Wu

"This exhibition did not begin with a theme; it began with a constellation. A constellation that led to a question that has never fully gone away: how do we come together?

What brought us together did not naturally reside in the articulation of a conceptual ground, but in the attempts around it: sharing drinks, sharing food, returning, lingering. In those moments, time and space were at play, alongside the objects in the background, which, rather than remaining décor, began to behave more actively. A table, a tabletop grill, a crate of beer, a floor, a room. Gradually, they facilitated our being together more than the attempts related to words and ideas. We arrived at the notion that our common ground is not something to be revealed through language; it is something that sits in the structure itself, in the arrangement, in its technical aspects, and in the objects that facilitate our togetherness.

In that sense, this exhibition is about what carries it, or what it carries. About what makes a situation possible before it fully declares itself. About all that is often overlooked as merely supporting, yet actually plays an active part in how something comes into being, how something interacts, how something converges, or does not.

What comes together here does not fuse into a fixed whole. Rather, it takes shape through a series of attempts, approaches, and shifts. At times close to one another, at times passing alongside each other. What emerges, then, is not an answer to how one comes together, but a place in which that question remains present."

9 May | Sat | 17.00-20.00: Exhibition Opening