Setting up for the exhibition POST DORDT in Dordrecht
About a month ago, I received an email inviting me to participate in POST DORDT, a group exhibition showcasing works by graduating students from all the masters programmes in the Netherlands. Naturally I was extremely pleased indeed about this. Since my background before studying at the DAI was in design and not fine art, I have very little experience of taking part in exhibitions, and so this is still something quite new and exciting.
“If I could just take part in one group show, I would be very satisfied”, I whispered to myself earlier this year. Well, the opportunity to do so has come a bit earlier than expected.
As is so often the case with wishes that come true, the details were a little different than how I had imagined. Instead of some gallery or art space in Amsterdam, this exhibition is taking place at the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst in Dordrecht. This is not exactly the teeming heart of the metropolis, and in fact I had to look it up on the map (it’s to the east of Rotterdam).
I am showing two video works, I your dear friend am in my self undone and Durée, the second of which is actually a series of four short videos. I had thought that this would be fairly straightforward, but in fact it took half the day to find DVD players which would co-operate and to solve various other minor technical problems. In the end it turned out looking pretty good though, and I am looking forward to Saturday’s opening.
