Of Gaia and Ouranos
Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal
Looiersgracht 60
26 November – 22 December, 2023
Opening
Saturday 25 November, 19:30-22:00
Performance at 20:00
Studio Veronica Ditting
Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday 12–8pm
(during exhibitions)
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Looiersgracht 60 and arts collective, Radical Reversibility, are pleased to invite you to Of Gaia and Ouranos, a new exhibition by Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal.
In the summer of 2022 Cremers and Kraal, were invited as the first participants of Looiersgracht 60’s Public Research Residency. Spiritus: Archiving the (Un)imaginable, was the title of Cremers and Kraal’s time in residence and the genesis for many of the installations that make up their new exhibition, Of Gaia and Ouranos.
The exhibition works from a transhistorical approach to materiality, ideas, and media, questioning how the past, present, and future can illuminate each other. Of Gaia and Ouranos displays immersive installations and sculptures, in textile, wood, and glass, as well as a ‘living archive’ of inspirational imagery. Using approaches such as the rarekiek (or peepshow box), the diafanorama, and 17th-century tapestry weaving, the works consider the obsolescence of media and its effect on knowledge and storytelling.
The expansive and large scale installation work of Kraal and Cremers reanimates these lost objects and their ability to communicate the questions of material, imaginative, and cosmic knowledge.
Join us for the opening on November 25th where there will be a special performance of Of Rheia and Kronos in collaboration with musicians Boele Weemhoff and Sylvian Kloens at 20:00.
Accompanying the exhibition, will be a public programme on December 16 with a conversation between the artists and Wouter Hanegraaff, more details are forthcoming.
The exhibition ‘Of Gaia and Ouranos’ is supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten (AFK), Mondriaan Fund and Looiersgracht 60. The installation ‘Perpetual Light’ is co-sponsored by TextielLab, Tilburg.