OPENING: Three Exhibitions in Five Acts: Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Attempts to Read the World (Differently). Three Exhibitions in Five Acts. Act 5: Jean Katambayi Mukendi from Stroom Den Haag on Vimeo.
Saturday 11 February 2017, from 17 hrs
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
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In Attempts to Read the World (Differently): Three Exhibitions in Five Acts - consisting of three successive solo exhibitions and two public transformation periods - the artists Max de Waard, Monira Al Qadiri and Jean Katambayi Mukendi present proposals that breathe new life into the way we think about our ever-changing world. On Saturday 11 February there will be the festive opening of the concluding Act 5, featuring the work of Jean Katambayi Mukendi.
The overall theme of Attempts to Read the World (Differently) is the creation of new perspectives on the complex times we live in. It is a plea for imagination as a poetic instrument to view the world differently - with more resilience and empathy. Precisely this, Jean Katambayi Mukendi says, is his 'artistic DNA'.
Jean Katambayi Mukendi is from the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), where he was trained as an electrician and a math teacher, amongst other things. His work is about art, science and utopia and is characterized by his fascination with technology, mechanics, geometry and electricity. He has been in The Hague since December, to create new work for his exhibition at Stroom. During his residency he started to reconsider what he calls the 'macro and micro forces' in our universe. Some of his works are created from coincidence, others are inspired by the mathematical patterns he uses to 'prove' quirky variations on the science behind the cosmos and human evolution. It is a continuous play with shifts in perspective: between historic and futuristic, Congolese and Dutch, ingenious and do-it-yourself, fiction and science.
He combines his drawings, sculptures and cardboard machines with the works of his predecessors in this series of exhibitions, Max de Waard and Monira Al Qadiri. On 29 January, during a Stroom School: Talk & Tour, he gave a public demonstration of his fictional-scientific approach in a performative 'math class'. His notes and sketches can still be found on the walls of the Stroom entrance space.
- Saturday 11 Feb '17 from 17 hrs
- Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free
