Lumen Travo gallery is delighted to invite you to the opening of the group show "I really wanna be with you" that features the works of students from the Sandberg Institute Fine Arts department (graduation year): Kaspar Dejong (1995, The Netherlands), Maja Chiara Faber (1992, Poland), Christian Herren (1992, Switzerland), Helena Keskküla (1992, Estonia), Jihye Lee (1992, South Korea), Boyan Montero (1992, Bulgaria), Alice Slyngstad (1990, Norway) and Tao Yang (1994, China).
E30 October till 2 November 2020
13.00 - 18.00 h (30 October: 16.00 - 20.00)
Lumen Travo Gallery, Lijnbaansgracht 314, Amsterdam
To ensure everybody's safety, visitors must reserve a time slot on a specific date by filling out on this form
Live music performance by Maja Chiara Faber (limited to 6 people per show):
30 October, 19.30-20.00
2 November, 18.30-19.00
Up to 6 people will be allowed inside the gallery at the same time. Face mask is mandatory.
Kaspar Dejong (1995, The Netherlands):
Kaspar Dejongs practice is based around painting and installation. In line with the semiotic tradition he explores signs, symbols and traces as a significant part of communications.
In the framework of the exhibition at the Lumen Travo gallery Kaspar Dejong shows two paintings which found their origin in public space. By erasing one's trace, a new mark is being made. Within the process of reduction a new formation comes to exist.
Maja Chiara Faber (1992, Poland):
Maja Chiara Faber is an interdisciplinary artist, intersectional feminist, witch and curator whose work navigates through explorations of esotericism, sound, sexuality, memory and fiction. Maja Chiara’s research is exploring queer female-identifying narratives and deprogramming patriarchal structures. In her practice she focuses on healing and communal bonding.
At the Lumen Travo gallery Maja Chiara will contribute with a live music performance and the work "i basically said i loved you". The work is a study of illusion, an experiment on perspective and a healing ritual. It is an offering of the expectation-free space, of facing oneself in front of one’s imagination, of mirroring oneself. Water carries information, but also the same water purifies. One is invited to drift towards the inner healing and grounding through layers of the afterimages we created for ourselves.
Christian Herren (1992, Switzerland):
The starting point for most of Christian Herrens work is a personal moment of joy and amazement about something that was previously unknown to the artist. Herrens installations, sculptures and video works often strive to reflect on the present day in relation to (art) histories and to examine and combine the two through the disciplines of iconography, cultural anthropology and environmental sciences.
120 watercolours, produced between 1963 and 1965 and showing strangely-colored petunias, are the main feature of the multi-channel installation "To be rebuilt with the materials of your time", that Herren shows at the Lumen Travo Gallery.
The collaborative work between Christian Herren and the Institute of Biology at the University of Amsterdam examine on one hand the use of genetic engineering methods in cut flowers and on the other, the project delves into the history of floral still life and attempts to gauge two significant factors of this genre: The depiction of flowers using the latest imaging technology (Hologram LED fans and lenticular prints), respectively an invitation to the recipient to deal with what they see both intellectually and combinatorially.
Helena Keskküla (1992, Estonia):
Keskküla works mainly with video, installation and performance embodying different characters who are haunted by anxieties or insecurities caused by our cultural space.
Jihye Lee (1992, South Korea):
Jihye Lee suggests entwined networks of narratives through various media including objects, drawing, film and writing. Currently, she is extracting potential characters and short stories from her letters written to R., an old friend of her mother.
Boyan Montero (1992, Bulgaria):
Boyan Montero is currently busy with a long-term project of creating a church inside his studio. The piece he's presenting at the Lumen Travo Gallery titled "Entrance" Boyan considers part of that very same church.
Alice Slyngstad (1990, Norway):
They explore themes such as perception, nervousness and publicity through performance, installation and writing.
Tao Yang (1994, China):
Taos works are based on painting, video and installation. He tries to use his own art practice to explore himself between inside and outside. The most common thing in his works is the environment he lives in; trees, people, room, moon and something else, and seeks the potential position for himself in these environmental things.