Artist Talk – Jendela
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13.10.2024
Roy Voragen (moderator), Ratu R. Saraswati, Kwinnie Lê, Samboleap Tol, & Isolde Venrooy
The four visual artists – Ratu R. Saraswati (her exhibition Calling My Waterfall to Return ran from 2 to 31 August 2024), Kwinnie Lê (their exhibition Carried Through the Wind ran from the Homeland from 6 to 30 September 2024), Samboleap Tol (her exhibition The Cosmic Tortoise is currently on view and runs until 31 October), and Isolde Venrooy (her exhibition Leaky Memories opens Friday 2 November at 7 pm) – were invited by curator Roy Voragen to show their work at Jendela, space for art & opacity (Brusselsestraat 87, Maastricht).
Jendela is a window. Jendela is a window as a micro exhibition space. Jendela is a window to elsewhere, a layered elsewhere that is present here polyphonically.
Ratu R. Saraswati is an artist from Indonesia who is currently based in Amsterdam; Kwinnie Lê is an artist and poet based in Rotterdam and their family is from Vietnam; Samboleap Tol is an artist based in Rotterdam and her family is from Cambodia; and Isolde Venrooy is a Maastricht-based visual artist and her maternal family is from Indonesia.
At Limestone Books, the four artists will talk about their respective exhibitions and how migrating stories, words, wounds and other diasporic shores have informed their lives and practices, and in encountering their practices we can attempt to connect and disconnect cross-temporal and porous geographies.