Please join us to celebrate the last moments of the last exhibition of our current series Turning to Dust and Bones. Daphne Huisden has written a commissioned text work for the occasion and Lisa Plaut will present a sculpture in response to the exhibition;
(…) Rodrigo’s backstory of two lovers unable to achieve a fusion and the tray where objects can slide, made me think of the flow of fluids, and the motion of fluid containers (…) The chain mail is a knit that can follow curves, together with Anouck Grenet, a maille specialist in Paris, we designed a pattern with different ring sizes that would highlight the curvy aspect of the pack, and tightened it with a ribbon. Chain mail was used to make undergarments used by the military, the revival of the craft as a hobby today is maybe because of its slowness.
Lisa Plaut’s practice of sculpture and drawings explores how standardisation impacts the production of the self. She was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academie, 2021 and currently works in Amsterdam and Paris.
Daphne Huisden made her debut at the end of 2010 at Prometheus Publishers with the novel Everything is always fiction, which was nominated for the Academica Literature Prize and included by Wim Brands in the anthology Dutch literature of the 21st century. In 2013, her second book This Remains Between Us was published, and nominated for the Halewijn Prize in the same year. Her third novel, Charlatans, was published in 2021. She has also published various articles and short stories, in literary magazines such as Das Magazin, Tirade, and the Rotterdam-katern of NRC Handelsblad.
The public program for Turning to Dust and Bones is moderated by DIG – the Internet Guide of literature magazine De Gids, with editors Asha Karami, in charge of selecting contributors for additional texts and events, and Fabienne Rachmadiev, who is closely following the program in order to write the central essay for the series.
Asha Karami writes poetry, prose, plays and essays, and collaborates on poetry films with Johan van Dijke. Her debut Godface (De Bezige Bij, 2019), a poetry collection, received three nominations for poetry awards and the Dutch foundation for literature grant. She was writer in residence at the Jan van Eyck academy in 2020-21. She is currently conducting research into people and communities who live or try to live outside the social structures. In addition to writing, she works as a doctor in Amsterdam.
Fabienne Rachmadiev is a writer and researcher. She is currently pursuing a PhD on decolonial, environmental, and queer temporalities in contemporary art from Central Asia at the University of Amsterdam. She writes fiction, essays and art criticism for collected volumes and for publications such as De Gids, De Groene, Metropolis M, NRC, and Tijdschrift Kunstlicht. Her debut book of fiction will be published by the Dutch publisher DAS MAG.
