The Kunstambassade is once again exhibiting at De Doelen this summer. Curators Silvia B. and Maja Smon present a two-part exhibition built around the theme Resonances-the notion that as human beings, and especially as artists, we are always searching for echoes, reflections, and responses to what we create and do.
In a world that is more digitally connected than ever, many of us feel strangely more disconnected - as if the world is slipping through our fingers. Our social, political and creative environments are experiencing an acceleration that often seems to be beyond our control. That reality fosters a growing sense of disorientation. And yet, a deep human longing persists: for participation, for collaboration, for the exchange of ideas, for meaningful contact through words, through shared presence.
The two-part exhibition seeks to reflect this tension and delve into the complex interplay between disoriented confusion and yearning for connection. The overarching theme is resonance, understood both as a metaphor for interpersonal connection and as a response to one's environment. As social and relational beings, we are looking for a certain resonance, a connectedness with the world whether it be human, natural or artificial. This idea can also be grasped through Donna Haraway's concept of Worlding by which she describes 'a process of the world, the body and their material actants which are equally conceived as materially amorphous, unfinished and always on the move'.
The first exhibition, Resonances from the Void, delves into states of disorientation and estrangement; both personally and societally, we seem to have lost our sense of direction. Feelings of absence and isolation are reflected in artworks that reveal a dreamlike emptiness or depict abandoned (architectural) spaces bearing traces of human presence. At times, estrangement resonates through fragments of bodies and faces, whose rawness appears to mirror life adrift in a directionless vacuum.
Participating artists:
Danni van Amstel, Maarten Bel, Tessa Biemans, Mel Chan, Marco Douma, Leonor Faber Jonker, Stefan Gross, Kim Hospers, Lotte Louise de Jong, Marijn de Jong, Rubén Dario Kleimeer, Diederik Klomberg, Rick Koren, Ine Lamers, Katinka Lampe, Marlike Marks, Alexandra Phillips, Onno Poiesz, Hester Scheurwater, Elian Somers, Renie Spoelstra, Koes Staassen, Sjoerd Westbroek, Gijsbert van der Wilt, Hans Wilschut.
Made possible by CBK Rotterdam
