Tent

IF YOU SAY SOMETHING, SEE SOMETHING.

09.07 – 22.08, 2010
Opening 09.07, 2010 20.00h

GHISLAIN AMAR (FR), DEREK BRUNEN (CA), DIANA DUTA (RO),
PRISCILA FERNANDES (PT), BITSY KNOX (CA), TOM KOK (NL),
SJOERD VAN LEEUWEN (NL), BAT SHEVA ROSS (IL), MARNIE SLATER (NZ),
JAY TAN (UK), SELINA TAYLOR (UK), ANNIE WU (AU)

Graduation show of the Master Fine Art Programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, a postgraduate programme of the Willem de Kooning Academy/Rotterdam University. Twelve artists from various countries present new installations, photographs, videos and performances developed specifically for the exhibition at TENT.

By way of their own individual languages and interests the artists flirt with different meanings of fiction: imaginary prose, false beliefs held to be true for expediency's sake, and sheer fabrication. The art works on view conjure up an idea of the artist as amateur - adventurer, researcher, poet - delving into, and perhaps uncovering, the convenient falsehoods with which we are surrounded.

The title of the exhibition If you say something, see something. is taken from the title of a poem by Charles Bernstein and like this word play, skews the habitual hierarchy of form and content.

The exhibition is curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Guy Ben-Ner.