Van Zoetendaal

Van Zoetendaal Photography is active in - foremost - contemporary Dutch photography: in curating exhibitions in museums, as a gallery and also in publishing photobooks (Van Zoetendaal Collections, Basalt Publishers).

SIDEWAYS

Municipal Museum of modern art in Arnhem
exhibition from 27/3 – 20/6 2010

Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (IR 1968)
Sara Blokland (NL 1969)
Bassam Chekhes (Syrië 1965)
Nickel van Duijvenboden (NL 1981)
Katrin Korfmann (D 1971)
Tina Rahimy (IR 1975)

After two years of research , discusion and reflection the artists and writers of the sideways group conclude their project with new works in a exhibition and a publication. You are very welcome on the opening on the 27 of march in the Museum of Contemporary art in Arnhem. Sideways is a initiative of artist and filmmaker Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (1968, Tehran) The research question asked: 'what happens if an artist is in an environment where his/her references of culture, history, language – those of style, metaphorical choices and the way that expression is influenced – are not known?' The concepts that separate artwork from other forms of representative media are expression, style and rhetoric. These concepts are closely interwoven with knowledge of the (personal, cultural, historical, linguistic) context in which the artwork has been created. In order to recognise the artwork as such, must the context also be recognisable?