2020

diptych in love

collaboration platform

potgieterstraat 47H amsterdam

gastronomy | collaboration | transdiscipline | performance | exhibition

diptych in love emerged from my project diptych which was at first was following an introverted structure. for most of the time i worked alone as i had to figure out the process and set the first building blocks that would define the experience. along the learning operations came surprising discoveries, sets of new skills and challenges facing the new medium. however, after a year and a half i felt the urge to physically and conceptually open up to other artists and use diptych as a platform to develop new ideas. i wanted to bring in different voices and was curious to see how others can interpret the framework that diptych offers and be inspired by it. from this desire diptych in love was born.

diptych in love is a collaborative platform driven by raw passions manifesting in a challenge of an experience and artistic expressions. in 2020 i started to invite artists to set up their studio at diptych for a month and work together on a new project. so far i have been in love with earthy masha ru, wild afra eisma, balanced comfort ball collective, enigmatic alexandra hunts, contemplative ernests vilsons and radicalizing marthe prins.

afra eisma

afra creates autobiographical worlds that burst with energy. using craft
techniques in novel ways, she expresses personal stories that result in
immersive and intimate installations of textiles, sculptures and ceramics

alexandra hunts

alexandra works in the grey area between art and science, exploring crafts
and materiality of things. her work seeks to find an epistemic basis on
which the world can be shaped and given an order.

masha ru

masha ru in brings together a collection of edible soils from across the globe. the
museum invites the audience to review their knowledge about food and cultural traditions
using creative thinking. for the past month masha ru’s collection of soils engaged in a
dialogue with diptych collection of salts, exploring the wide range of flavours and textures
earth can have.

comfort ball

comfort ball explore the topics of female labour, discrimination and body
politics through medium of food.

ernests vilsons

ernests most recent research investigates a birdsong, its imitation and
the musical-theoretical-philosophical implications of representation and attempts at ‘sonic realism’.

marthe prins

artist and researcher teaching at royal academy of arts in the hague. she studies the language and image production of the protagonists of (western) neoliberalism: at once strongly attracted to and repulsed by the uncanny-yet-violent forms of representation it produces.

in love

started as a physical space, in the time when physical movements are restricted i decided to explore virtual space as a tool for intuitive flowing exploration. i consider diptych in love as a a visual exploratory essay that takes you onto an inspirational journey where you can meet the artists in an unconventional manner. natural drift towards a virtual environment, opened up the possibilities of digital realm, making connection and evoking senses without senses. in close collaboration artists are challenged to build their project in non-physical space without compromises, finding a unique way to utilise and cherish this non-physicality.