Ultra Atlantic Blue

UltraAtlantic Blue

Solo exhibition
by Patricia Pinheiro de Sousa

Open:
Artist Talk
06/12/20 -17:00 -17:40 H (online)

Exhibition
12/12/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
13/12/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H

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‘’The far west coast of Europe, with 800 kms of coastline facing the Atlantic, was a convenient location for extracting large amounts of this mineral for a short period of time. This mineral was meant to produce a blue pigment, the UltraAtlantic Blue. 

Blue could have become the new green if the pigment wouldn’t have been called ‘Ultra Atlantic’ and if the sea urchin Cidaris cidaris wouldn’t be constantly passing in front of the cameras that monitored the drilling. 

By the time the name was replaced by a more conventional name and the cameras properly camouflaged, it was just too late. ‘’

The UltraAtlantic Blue is the name of a fictional blue pigment, whose production is only possible by harvesting a particular mineral deep in the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the title of the exhibition that brings together the most recent works of Patricia Pinheiro de Sousa. The works present fictional scenarios, outlined by the exploitation of mineral resources seen from historical and economical perspectives. 

photography: Lili Berger

UMA STARTS A NEW RIVER

UMA STARTS A NEW RIVER

Solo exhibition
by Menghua Wu

Open:
28/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
29/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
30/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
01/12/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H

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Photo’s: Menghua Wu

Uma starts a new river is a series of reborn mythological paintings about origination, salvation and transformation. Norming and deforming of figures naturally emerge as experimental elements from my painting process.
My source of inspiration comes from fragmented Mongolian folklore I heard, or stories I had never been told. Somehow they found their way to my memory, in other words, my imagination. Maybe I just need those stories so much, that I have to tell them to myself.
By painting them, I want to give material form, back to those forgotten stories, a rebirth. Showing them in See Lab, I dream to find a kind space and celebrate those primordial images coming back to this world.

Now the question is, why do reborn Mongolian ancient myths matter? It is not about consigning the history of everything the past has brought, nor about making a new lie to hypnotise ourselves. It is about having access to an alternative world through a new river.
This alternative world originates from a lost civilisation protocol, which is not human centred nor man dominated. There are different ways of being, not only life or death, but existing in-between, existing in the metamorphosis, always staying in the becoming, always changing. Like the Mongolian heroine or Shaman who can alter her shape and store her soul in others.
The instinctive energy flow of this river has the power to unfold a world which was once real, leading us to where we come from, where time comes from.

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Uma begint een nieuwe rivier is een serie herboren mythologische schilderijen over ontstaan, verlossing en transformatie. Het normeren en vervormen van figuren komt vanzelfsprekend naar voren als experimentele elementen uit het schilderproces.
Mijn inspiratie komt van gefragmenteerde Mongoolse folklore die ik heb gehoord of verhalen die ik nooit heb gehoord. Op de een of andere manier vonden zij hun weg naar mijn geheugen, met andere woorden, mijn verbeelding. Misschien heb ik die verhalen gewoon zo hard nodig, dat ik ze mezelf moet vertellen.

Door ze te schilderen wil ik materiaal vorm geven aan die vergeten verhalen - een wedergeboorte. Exposerend in See Lab, droom ik ervan een vriendelijke ruimte te vinden om die oerbeelden te vieren die naar deze wereld terugkeren.
Nu is de vraag: waarom zijn herboren Mongoolse oude mythes van belang? Het gaat er niet om dat alles uit het verleden de geschiedenis heeft voortgebracht, noch om zelf een nieuwe leugen tegen hypnose te bedenken. Het gaat erom dat we via een nieuwe rivier toegang hebben tot een alternatieve wereld.
Deze alternatieve wereld is ontstaan uit een verloren beschavingsprotocol, dat niet op de mens gericht is en niet door de man wordt gedomineerd. Er zijn verschillende manieren van zijn, niet alleen leven of dood, maar er tussenin bestaand, bestaand in de metamorfose, altijd in het worden, altijd aan het veranderen. Zoals de Mongoolse heldin of sjamaan die haar vormen kunnen veranderen en hun ziel in anderen opslaan.
De instinctieve energiestroom van deze rivier heeft de kracht om een wereld te ontvouwen die eens echt was, ons leiden naar waar we vandaan komen, waar tijd vandaan komt. 

Totems van Stilte

Totems van Stilte

Solo exhibition with steel sculptures
by Chris de Vis.

OPEN:
31/10/20 - 01/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
20/11/20 - 22/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H

photos: Anke van den Berg

“Tien stalen beelden.
Mat zwart.
Ze maken je stil.
Ik hunker naar stilte.
Om het leven te voelen.
De dood gewaar te worden.
En daaraan voorbij te gaan.
Echo’s uit een ver verleden.
Buigen zich over de toekomst.
Krachtige aanwezigheid.
Van iets dat meer is
en verder reikt.”

— Chris de Vis

“I crave for silence.
To feel life.
To sense death.
And beyond.
Echoes of an ancient past.
Dawning of the future.
Powerful presence.
Of something more.
Something beyond.”

— Chris de Vis

WALKING WITH UNIMALS

HOOGTIJ #61

Special edition of Contemporary Art Tour The Hague#61 online! With the work:

WALKING WITH UNIMALS by Studio Pointer*
Asya Sukhorukova & Jakob Schlötter

WWW.HOOGTIJ.NET
OPENING: FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 19:00 H

More info: facebook

Description: Studio Pointer* (Asya Sukhorukova & Jakob Schlötter) creates media art and interactive installations. Currently their work "Walking with Unimals", which was created in 2019 for the Cinekid festival in Amsterdam, is situated at the project space of See Lab, which Asya and Jakob are members of.

""Walking with Unimals" (2019) is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem populated by fantastic creatures, which live, die and reproduce with the help of Generative Adversarial Networks. Consisting of multiple different universes and inhabited by crossbreeds of animated gifs found on the Internet, it is a world in which the evolution process is unpredictable and never-ending. Initially enclosed and inhabited by a specific family of creatures, the universes can be connected with cables which allow the unimals to migrate, meet foreign species as well as protect their own kinds from extinction by mating with their new encounters.

About Hoogtij #61:
Special edition of Hoogtij! On Friday 29 May you can visit Hoogtij online from 7 p.m. On the website of www.hoogtij.net you will find a map with all participating locations. Each participant will make a video especially for this evening. You can view them by clicking on the appropriate location on the map.

Concept, programming and installation design: Studio Pointer*
Commissioned by Cinekid Festival
Photos & Video: Jonathan Hielkema (Touchy Studios)

POSTPONED PROGRAM

Nothing beats the importance of the health and safety of our community!!! Our Project Space programme till July 2020 will be postponed. The following program will be moved to another due date to the coronavirus.

POSTPONED PROGRAM:
- There’s a rhythm in a rush these Day’s - Ryan Lim
- Totems van de Stilte - Chris de Vis
- Getting things done (that's preliminary) - Douwe Mulder
- Morimaru, North Sea Thinkers - curated by Natalie McIlroy