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01.11.2024 to 28.02.2027
rafts~~~ is a series of informal meetings taking place at Marwan, reimagined for each gathering as a workplace water-cooler for art practitioners working in Amsterdam.
Over the past few years, several collaborations have led us to reconsider our form as an exhibition space. In 2020, for example, Marwan was reimagined as a cutlery drawer around Martijn Hendrik’s sculpture Spoon, taking form as an (irregularly) growing exhibition that put the static installation of exhibitions into question. In 2023, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg shifted Marwan into a Living Room, which was inspired by a local sofa store / cinema and through Tirza Kater's Keychains reassessed how viewers and participants could visit and use the space. Most recently, for SYSTEMA, Marwan was reimagined as a growing body of limbs, focusing on the collection of people—from those who invigilate, do photography, curate, clean, etc.—that hold up the makings of the space, and in doing so reorganised our relationships with Marwan as a project and with each other. Through each of these occasions, we were able to question the forms, processes, and ways of working that we, as practitioners in the arts, fall into and (often unknowingly or unwillingly) reproduce, and each event was approached as an opportunity to make small changes to how we operate.
rafts~~~ explores another thread of this work. In line with Marwan's broader program, which questions notion of production and efficiency that push artist-run spaces into unsustainable modes of work, these events repurpose Marwan as a hosting space to reflect and strategize on the working conditions of contemporary artists.
Signified by the installation of an (al)readymade work (a water-cooler) by Clémence Lollia Hilaire, rafts~~~ temporarily shifts Marwan into a time and space adjacent to the production and exhibition of art work through three, soon to be announced, iterations.
rafts~~~ is initiated by Clémence Lollia Hilaire in collaboration with Marwan collective artist-run project space.
Marwan's program is supported by Mondriaan Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
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