CONFLUX
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October 29 – December 20, 2022
Conflux is where two or more streams float together to make a river. We are five artists from the artist run organisation Slipvillan in Sweden that let our art join both in our minds and here in Middelburg. How things are joined is what matters. When five smaller rivers merge into one big one, it roars forward with mighty power
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Lange Noordstraat 67, NL-4331 CC Middelburg caesuur@zeelandnet.nl www.caesuur.nu www.caesuur-posethequestion.nl
K.v.K. Middelburg 411 143 92 IBAN NL65 RBRB 0787 6747 53
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CONTENT
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CONFLUX | the opening
CONFLUX | short videos opening and the evening performance CONFLUX | the exhibition / the images
CONFLUX | the exhibition / the artists CONFLUX | the colophons
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CONFLUX | short videos opening the evening performance
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video opening word by Annika | video closing ceremony
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| the exhibition / the images
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click here for the video
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video opening word by
| video closing ceremony
Performative
Conflux opening, 2022.
In accordance with the art works of the Conflux exhibition presented in Middelburg in November in 2022, the artist group wanted to give attention to the great magic of waters, without which we cannot survive but seldom praise.
Through a short ceremony at the opening the group connected water personally, addressing a glass of water pouring it into a glass pot saying: To Me Water Represents The Unconscious, The Childhood, The Meeting of ideas and The Life.
By both acting and saying; the water was somehow activated; turning it into its various magical meanings.
After the gallery closing time the pot with collected water was brought by the artist group to a canal of Middelburg; both somewhat bringing water back to both its source and its ending in the sea, aggregating personal and different aspects of the magic of waters. Also this part when water was brought into the canal water was documented in a short video.
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CONFLUX | the exhibition / the artists
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Annika
ceremony at ruimteCAESUUR
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CONFLUX | the colophons
Since 1995, exhibitions of contemporary art have been made in CAESUUR, from 1999 on at Lange Noordstraat 67 in Middelburg.
Visual arts, in relation with contemporary art discourse, are always the guiding principle for an exhibition, but a historical and social perspective also determine our choices.
ruimteCAESUUR stands for the autonomy of art and puts the artist’s oeuvre at the center of organizing its (solo) exhibitions. Young, novice and “arrived” artists are offered a platform to present their work in a non-commercial environment. Meeting and learning from each other play an important role within our annual planning.
ruimteCAESUUR is a private initiative, without any profit motive, with Willy van Houtum and visual artist Hans Overvliet as its core.
teamCAESUUR is more than completed by the artists Jorieke Rottier and Giel Louws. The unique composition of this team crosses borders of art practices, gender, and generations.
The exhibitions in 2022 were as much as possible organised in cooperation with art initiatives from other countries: Lípa Art Collection and Luxfer Open Space, both from the Czech Republic, platvvorm from Belgium, Slipvillan from Sweden, etc.
Exchange with Dutch artists ensures reciprocity in this processes.
Lange Noordstraat 67, NL-4331 CC Middelburg caesuur@zeelandnet.nl www.caesuur.nu www.caesuur-posethequestion.nl K.v.K. Middelburg 411 143 92 IBAN NL65 RBRB 0787 6747 53
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exhibition CONFLUX
artist group Slipvillan www.slipvillan.org Stockholm | Sweden
Madeleine Aleman, Jannike Brantås, Rikard Fåhraeus, Rilard / c-flux, Laetitia Deschamps Fåhraeus, Masoud Shahsavari texts Slipvillan | Hans Overvliet photos
Rikard Fåhraeus | Masoud Shahsavari Willy van Houtum | Hans Overvliet catalogue Hans Overvliet
teamCAESUUR
Jorieke Rottier | Willy van Houtum Giel Louws | Hans Overvliet
thanks to KulturrådetSweden | Region StockholmSweden
the happy share holders & ditto friends of CAESUUR the municipality of Middelburg the province of Zeeland Kattendijke / Drucker Foundation Family Fund Hurgronje Frits Lensvelt Foundation Mondrian Fund
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Slipvillan on Långholmen / Stockholm - summer | winter
CONFLUX
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artist group Slipvillan | Stockholm | Sweden