From June 16 to September 8, 2024, the group exhibition On water, flow and warped time will be on view at Vleeshal, with work by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska and artist duo HUNITI GOLDOX (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox). In our Western society, time is seen as a linear process revolving around growth and progress. More than ever, humanity is focused on productivity and time management. But can we experience time differently in our current society? Can we move through the world in a different way? The exhibition On water, flow and warped time focuses on the river as a place where time can be experienced in alternative ways. The artists in this exhibition examine how we can learn from water and explore the relationships between the river, circular time and capitalist systems.

Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza, curators of Vleeshal's 2022-2023 International Nomadic Program, have invited artist collective HUNITI GOLDOX to participate in the residency FLOW. FLOW is a residency project by artists Agnieszka Brzeżańska and Ewa Ciepielewska that takes place on a raft. Artists are invited to sail on different rivers in Poland. From July 23 to 30, 2022, Areej Huniti and Eliza Goldox floated with the current of Poland's Wisła River. During the residency, the four artists lived with each other on the raft and along the river and explored what it means to be at the mercy of the flow of a river as an artist and as a human being. The river is the starting point for a collective existence on the raft in which they are free to experiment without the need to produce work. FLOW is thus an exercise in discovering alternative economic systems, collectivity and production that are not under the direct influence of financial circulation and institutional structures.

The unique Gothic exhibition space of Vleeshal will feature architectural, digital and natural elements that challenge you to think about the connection between water and time. We invite you to wander through the space, isolate yourself and read stories or lose yourself in the slow movements of a digital water clock. For this exhibition we explicitly use local materials such as willows, sand, plants and water from Zeeland.

Events

15 June

Opening On water, flow, and warped time

3 – 5 pm