State Of Cling

State of Cling
door Syzygy_collective
(*)
State of Cling is het moment waarop dingen bij elkaar komen en op hun plek vallen, gepaard gaand met een hoge klank, scherp en breekbaar, om samen te resoneren.
State of Cling was tevens de titel van de groepstentoonstelling onder curatorschap van Syzygy_collective die plaatsvond van 15 januari t/m 13 februari 2022. Syzygy_collective is een collectief van drie generaties vrouwelijke kunstprofessionals die hun krachten hebben gebundeld: Brieke Drost, Sibylle Eimermacher en Mireille Tap. De naam Syzygy slaat op het moment waarop drie hemellichamen zich in een rechte lijn ten opzichte van elkaar bevinden en beïnvloeden, zoals tijdens een zonsverduistering. Als collectief zijn ze toegewijd aan het intuïtieve, intieme, zachte en verbindende. Kwetsbaarheid zien ze als kracht!
Voor deze groepstentoonstelling nodigde Syzygy_collective kunstenaars uit die hun waarden delen binnen concepten, materialiteit, beeldtaal en gebaar om op deze manier de verbinding met elkaar aan te gaan. Een gezamenlijke krachtsinspanning die uiteindelijk heeft geleidt naar een State of Cling. (*)
Met:
Ana Navas
Brieke Drost
Hanna Mattes
Janne Schimmel
Mireille Tap & Thomas Bürger
Mitchel Peters
Niamh Porter
Nora Aurrekoetxea
Sibylle Eimermacher & Iwan Boverhof
Tekst by Romy Day Winkel
(published in State of Cling magazine)
The main character of this story, or the “I”,
has learned about cling via her father breaking
his thumb by getting it stuck in a motorcycle
chain, permanently reshaping its top, which,
much later, turned out to be convenient for
holding. She learned about cling because her
best friend mocks her high pitched voice by
imitating it (especially when saying ‘hi’) as
well as touching used chewing gum. There are
accidents that end up being stickier than
previously thought, like my father’s thumb
that, in its bulging op top, turned out to
be convenient for holding, or a piece of
velcro that also clings onto dust and animal
hair, the same way in which black velvet
pants or black pants in general can become a
space for gathering all sorts of small fibres,
specs of a fluffy blanket, animal hair again.
There’s unplanned pregnancies that stay,
there’s heat produced by hot water bottles,
heat that is stuck between the soil and the
ozone. There are all these states of cling
that are accidental and my impression is that
it needs to be. Cling, now, as permanent
insulation.
My father placed the object here
but as soon
as I was born
it fell off
the cabinet
and took this
shape and location
It was a mirroring object: both in form (a
mirror frame) and in content (my father
looked a lot like his father).
I guess mirrors run in our family.
The last gift I received from my aunt is a
music box playing Bach when wound up. It is
shaped like a cilinder, covered in small
pieces of mirror. As a child, it functioned
as a soundtrack to dramatic gazes outside my
room’s window; performing for an invisible
audience of emphatic onlookers; “what a
profound gaze she has”, I hoped they would say.
It was raining outside, I just texted my crush,
etc.
At the time, I had a friend, I will call her R,
with who I always used to play out two
scenarios: we either started our own gallery
in the living room, marking the items with an
imaginary interested buyer with a red dot, or
we would write and star in a play. My aunt’s
gift had a dramatic role in, what later turned
out to be, our last performance.
We were figuring out the logistics of our play
in the living room of R’s parent’s house. What
made this room comfortable was the soundtrack
of my aunt’s music box playing in the
background and the dramatic looking out of the
window in the final scene. Other than that there
were many new factors: there was an actual
audience, namely our parents and R’s aunt
chatting in the garden, and there was a co-star.
I held onto the symmetries: R and I both having
dark brown hair, both having a name starting
with the letter R, both with divorced parents.
It was time for our first rehearsal. R told me
to wind up the music box. I kept holding onto
it as this became part of my character in the
play. The performance would end on me running
outside, removing the music box from stage as
the final dramatic gesture of the separation
of two sisters in a complex family relationship.
I ran towards the glass door which I assumed to
be open, but instead I ran through it. I ran
through it and the glass broke into thousands
of little pieces. For a moment I was laying
there, looking at my hands. I heard R’s aunt
crying. The music box fell next to me and fit
in so well with its small covering in mirrors.
Later on I lied to my father and said the sun
was obstructing my gaze as it reflected in the
music box. I also told him there was a piece
of glass in my eye but that I didn’t want to
say at the time in order to not scare him. I
said I had plucked it out of my eye with
tweezers when I went to the bathroom later.
In that bathroom: the broken mirror frame
with a picture of my father’s father. I felt
like he was judging me for lying. Both ‘he’,
my grandpa represented by his picture, and
‘he’, my father looking so much like his,
and ‘me’ represented in broken mirror frame,
knew there was no piece of glass in my eye.
Cling, again, as permanent insulation.
MAGAZINE STATE OF CLING, ontwerp Studio Corine van de Wal
Fotoverslag van de expo: de foto’s zijn gemaakt door Django van Ardenne
Janne Schimmel,
– Phantasmic Gateways and their Housings, aluminium en brons, ceramics, computer hardware, gemstones, 2021
– Many little hugs, casted tin, gravel stones, 2022
Ana Navas,
– Logos, plastic, textiles, bijouterie, acrylic paint, Ø 27,7 cm, 2020
– Welness Room, plastic, textiles, bijouterie, acrylic paint, Ø 22,5 cm, 2021
Nora Aurrekoetxea,
LEPOA/ NUCA/ NECK, Metal, ceramics, 2021
Mitchel Peters,
– MUSIC~RIBBONS, Paint on wall (site specific), 2022
– JESTER KING (Sad Throne) Paint on wall (site specific), 2022
– GARDEN SLUG ANGEL, Graphite on wall (site specific), 2022
Sibylle Eimermacher & Iwan Boverhof, the Pose series,
– Pose #9.1, staal, koper, 48 × 105 cm, 9 kg, 2022
– Pose #9.2, staal, goud, 26 × 164 cm, 5,7 kg, 2022
– Pose #9.3, staal, tin/antimoon, 63 × 96 cm, 9 kg, 2022
Pose #9.1
Pose #9.2
Pose #9.3
Brieke Drost,
– Zwaardje, tempera/paneel/koper, 11 x 18cm, 2021
– Modern Pin Brooche, potlood/papier, 17 x 21cm, 2021
– Tweety, potlood/papier, 11 x 18cm, 2021
Niamh Porter,
– Transat in Asoka Amarasinghe House & De Saram House, olieverf op doek, 53 x 43 cm, 2020
– Case Study No.8, olieverf op doek, 53 x 63 cm, 2021
– The adjacent bedroom, Ruth Hildegard Geyer Raack, kleurenpen op gekleurd papier, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2021
– Bedside table, kleurenpen op gekleurd papier, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2021
Mireille Tap (audio by Thomas Bürger), FEELING NEEDY
Sofa with FEELING NEEDY Pop 1, 2, 3 & 4 with unique music composition by Thomas Bürger – 2022
from left to right:
– FEELING NEEDY Flower pillow, Leather, textile, buckwheat hulls
– FEELING NEEDY Pop Nr. 1 Textile, buckwheat hulls, silver, amethyst, ametrine, pearls, electronics
– FEELING NEEDY Pop Nr. 2 Textile, buckwheat hulls, silver, jade, smoky quartz, electronics
– FEELING NEEDY Pop Nr. 4, Textile, buckwheat hulls, silver, agate, owyhee opal, rose quartz, pearls, electronics
– FEELING NEEDY Pop Nr. 3, Textile, buckwheat hulls, silver, agate, onyx, electronics
Hanna Mattes (in Trafohuisje nr. 1),
Supernatural #1-4, Digital 16 mm-projectie, 00:03:32, 2014
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Nora Aurrekoetxea
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Niamh Porter
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Mitchel Peters
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Janne Schimmel
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Hanna Mattes
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Brieke Drost
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Ana Navas
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Mireille Tap
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Sibylle Eimermacher
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