Seeing the Unwritten; exhibition accompanying Programmers of the Future Showcase
The exhibits, developed by three of Eye’s Programmers of the Future, are part of their End-of-Year Showcase which concludes a 10-month traineeship. Taking the forms of installations and interactive moving image presentations, they will be held at MACA | Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam.
The showcase consists of three projects developed around Koree Wilrycx’s, Janilda Bartolomeu’s, and Kseniia Bespalova’s individual themes and research. It consists of an In-Cinema programme at Eye, an online programme on the Eye Film Player, and an installation/exhibition at the new talent-supporting hub, MACA.
Black Atlantic Visions focuses on how Afro-diasporic realities are seen and engaged with through specific, subjective cinematic lenses. Lenses of filmmakers and artists, who seem sensitive to multiple temporalities including timelines & timezones, transitory senses of spatial awareness, ever-changing (creole) language, culture, and the ways in which these complexities are all able to exist at the same time. This constellatory display, curated by Janilda Bartolomeu, includes works by artist Ethel Tawe, filmmaker Jade O’Belle, as well as a curated book selection in collaboration with The Base Bookspace.
Women Looking at Men, Beyond the (fe)male gaze examines different varieties of masculinities and how they are constructed, reinforced and challenged in contemporary culture. By combining the works of established female artists like experimental filmmakers Marie Menken and Tracey Moffatt, with the works of young, contemporary, local artists like Amanda van Hesteren, Angie Dekker and Sky Verbeek, Korée Wilrycx is attempting to show the ways in which, each in their own distinct field of expertise, these artists have found a way to challenge and/or redefine the concept of the (fe)male gaze.
The project Not a Map But a Trace: Former Soviet Land Reclaimed follows alternative visual geographies of what used to be the Soviet Union. The selected films, curated by Kseniia Bespalova, reclaim wounded landscapes from the oppressive narratives of state socialism. The exhibition revolves around the notion of infrastructure as a means of charting and controlling land, while also connecting it with other lands. The works of Tekla Aslanishvili, Victor Brim, and Salomé Lamas will be presented alongside the 1929 classic avant-garde documentary Turksib.
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