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EXHIBITION

08.07.2023—27.08.2023

The Ground Up And The Washed Down

HIEKE PARS
RAFFIA LI
JUNGHUN KIM
GAYATRI KODIKAL
GABI DAO
FILEONA DKHAR
DAGMAR BOSMA

curated by YIN YIN WONG

It started with the body. The body—sore and bruised from working on the docks from dawn to dusk—was washed and restored here.

Over the past hundred years, the bath house has been transformed into a monument containing an art space. It is here, now, that we understand the body to be a proxy of the celestial body that is our planet. Hidden in plain sight, the slow, all-consuming grind that establishes our comfort continues steadily.

In The Ground Up And The Washed Down we, the heirs of the grind, draw from its extracted residue. What can we learn from what’s left behind? What do we see when we lift the ground up? What do we feel when we sense with our entire body? How has time washed us down and how do we make space for restoration once more?

Image Credit: Dagmar Bosma, SCRAP METAL DREAM BOY, 2021. Photo by Lili Huston-Herterich


YIN YIN WONG is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher dealing with the ramifications of Western Modernity, with in particular its effect on the lives and cultures of those who fall outside of its narrow paradigm. Through their practice they speak to dominant frameworks that extract labour from the working class (immigrant) body while simultaneously depleting the world of its natural resources.

Yin Yin was an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academy (‘20 – ‘21). Recently their research surrounding the Dutch-Asian diaspora was presented at Natasha, Singapore Biennale ‘22 and their film ‘Lotus Flowers’ screened at the Venice Biennale ‘22. Later this year they will exhibit new work at Framer Framed, Amsterdam; CHAxART, Rotterdam and Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur.


The Ground Up And The Washed Down and A Tale of A Tub's Open Call for Exhibition Proposals are conceived in close collaboration with CBK Rotterdam. The exhibition is additionally supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund.


EVENT

08.07.23, 16:00-20:00
Exhibition opening


PERFORMANCE

08.07.23, 17:00-18:00
Ultrasonic Tigress
performance by GAYATRI KODIKAL


PERFORMANCE

29.07.23, 16:00-17:00
Ultrasonic Tigress
performance by GAYATRI KODIKAL


PERFORMANCE

12.08.23, 15:00-16:00
The space between objects is trajectories of your imagination
interactive meditation workshop with JUNGHUN KIM


GUIDED TOUR

27.08.23, 14:00
ataleofatub.org/en/program/guided-tour-the-ground-up-and-the-washed-down
guided tour by YIN YIN WONG


PERFORMANCE & FINISSAGE

27.08.23, 16:00
for things not here not now
performance by RAFFIA LI in collaboration with EKREM KOÇ, YUNFAN TIAN and YANFEI LI

Dagmar Bosma, SCRAP METAL DREAMBOAT, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Fileona Endoxa Dkhar, Ancestral Echoes, 2022 and Dagmar Bosma, SCRAP METAL DREAMBOAT, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Junghun Kim,The space between the objects are trajectories
of your imagination
, 2020– Ongoing and Gabi Dao with John Brennan and Elisa Ferrari, Last Lost Time, 2021, Photo: LNDWstudio

Junghun Kim, The space between the objects are trajectories
of your imagination
, 2020– Ongoing and Hieke Pars, Ground-Works, The Balustrade, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Dagmar Bosma, SCRAP METAL DREAMBOAT, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Fileona Endoxa Dkhar, Ancestral Echoes, 2022, Photo: LNDWstudio

Gabi Dao with John Brennan and Elisa Ferrari, Last Lost Time, 2021, Photo: LNDWstudio

Gabi Dao, Tear Possibility 2, 2021, Photo: LNDWstudio

Gayatri Kodikal, Ultrasonic Tigress, 2020, Photo: LNDWstudio

Hieke Pars, Ground-Works, The Balustrade, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Hieke Pars, Ground-Works, The Balustrade, 2023, Photo: LNDWstudio

Junghun Kim, The space between the objects are trajectories
of your imagination
, 2020– Ongoing and A one time breathing is a world, 2022, Photo: LNDWstudio