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Traces of Touch, 2021
Inkjet prints on paper, archival objects, sound (30 sec. loop), wooden sound installation
with Studio for Immediate Spaces

Folds, holes, cracks and creases, spills and cuts. These traces of care possess a rare ability to connect us to an object and its users. Once in the archive, often only a two–dimenstional representation remains for the wide public. This is an invitation to follow one’s senses and bridge the gap between object and their possible life before the archive.

The aim of Capture / Display was to produce a pop-up exhibition as a critical documentary, exposing modes of operating on the collection works—copying, enlarging, displacing, recontextualising, deleting, editing, reclassifying, translating, publishing, displaying, hiding and embedding them. Working collaboratively, we identified key documents from the drawings, photographs and models belonging to the archives of Dutch architects and urban planners. Considering how things appear, how they are stored, who collected them and why they were kept and deposited. Finally, we mobilized the documents, giving thought and shape to what we wanted the documents to do differently.

Within self-imposed constraints, the production was kept to a bare minimum: two walls, one printer, one sound system, one tape roll. Four groups storyboarded strategies for a potentially cinematic space, articulated in four chapters, each linking back to a set of documents from the institute’s collection. Using the archive is not a neutral but a creative act with an aesthetic intention, an audience and a purpose. The exhibition is the means to select, present and create new adjacencies, allowing for new types of knowledge circulation.

Curated by Paolo Patelli 
Graphic design by Yon Matauko
in collaboration with Juri Velt, Elena Braida, Gina Crighton, Yon Matauko, Stefania Rigoni 
Studio for Immediate Spaces

On show ‘Capture / Display’, Gallery 3, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL, 2021

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