Exhibition with Annelotte Lammertse at Eight Cubic Meters, Amsterdam (NL) from October 6 until November 3. Works (printed text 594 x 841 mm, woven and tufted textiles, embroidery on handmade papers, ink drawings, stickers drawings) presented in ten windows in an alley between two busy shopping streets. Photos © Jordi de Vetten
The Dutch word ‘een boodschap’ has a double meaning. It can be translated as either ‘a message’ or as ‘a grocery’. Boodschap comes from the word ‘bode,’ meaning ‘envoy’ and the suffix ‘-schap,’ which is someone’s trade or job. These 8 cubic meters are in an alley sideways to one of Amsterdam’s biggest shopping streets. It hosts the ones wanting a detour, a shortcut, a wander or a hide.
Via the actions of collecting, holding, and putting together this is a passage on that what we collect, carry, and hold every day; on things and stories we subconsciously pass by and carry to new surroundings; on different actions, sounds, repetitive rhythms, and movements we meet and make on the way.
In the windows the verbs dragen (to carry), overdragen (to hand over) and opdragen (to dedicate) with brengen (to bring), overbrengen (to transfer) and opbrengen (to bear) with nemen (to take), overnemen (to take over/on) and opnemen (to record/ to stand up for something or someone) are connected to think about all it takes and leaves behind to convey something.
