Life Potential
The group exhibition Life Potential in Arti et Amicitiae offers a stage for seven artists depicting alternative refuges. Borrowing from an endless stream of visual clichés and ingrained social patterns, they create a malleable and fluid space. The artists choose a feminine or queer perspective to search for alternative ways of looking at themes such as archaeology, nature, sex and identity. The literal meaning of Queer is 'strange' and stands for an open, unconventional approach based on the realization that everything and everyone is in a state of transformation.
Life Potential
Everything is in a state of transformation
There is a shared interest in visual clichés, such as posed nudes, floral wallpapers and landscapes that resemble desktop backgrounds. These are all utopian elements and consumer goods that sell an illusion of romance.
All these elements are then brought together in unexpected connections, shaken up and appropriated. The difference between 'real' and 'fake' and all other conclusive definitions is let go and stretched in a playful way.
Drawings, paintings, videos, installations and performances come together as a mise-en-scene of a layered landscape, full of subtle transgressions of social boundaries and expectations.
Participating artists include Ersin Eken, Koes Staassen, Maria Klaassen-Andrianova, Marijn Brussaard, Mirjam Vreeswijk, Sjoerd Martens and Leon Stoffelen.
| Wednesday 29 March | 12:00 |
| Thursday 30 March | 12:00 |
| Friday 31 March | 12:00 |