Exhibition 'RE:FWD: A Reply to the Present, A Forward to Us All' in Kunstlinie
What does hope look like in a broken world? And how can art help us imagine a future that is hopeful, yet realistic? The group exhibition RE:FWD: A Reply to the Present, A Forward to Us All brings together hopeful future perspectives from 21 young artists.
Through installations, soundscapes, paintings, textile art and sculptures, they explore and celebrate small and large hopes. They look critically at the past and the present and speculate about what could be. Under the motto – 'without consciousness no foundation is formed and no one can live in a castle in the air' – they investigate what it means to shape a future based on grief, resilience and possibilities.
The visitor is stimulated to no longer see hope as an abstract concept, but as an active process. And if man himself appears to be primarily responsible for that hope, then actively contributing to the creation of a hopeful future is up to us.
Participating artists: Ahmad Mallah, Augustina Lavickaite, Charmaine de Heij, Chongjin Chen, Clinton Kabena, Cristal de la Cruz, Daeun Lim, Davitha van de Kuilen, Elena Zecchin, Ellen Yiu, Emmy van de Grift, Hodan Omar Elmi, Karmel Sabri, Lorena Rode, Marc Paulusma, Marian Genet, Qiaochu Guo, Rebecca Lillich-Krüger, Riangelo Christie, SasaHara Ghanem-Chaney, Simon Pillaud and Yang-Ha.
RE: FWD: is a co-production of Biblical Museum, Kunstlinie and NDSM FUSE and is curated by Mees Elias van Zanten, Thierno Deme and Caithlin Courtney Chong.
