DOUBLE EXPOSURE(S)/ STUTTERS – solo exhibition by Dominique Hurth
We’re delighted to open Dominique Hurth’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. In 2014, Hurth encountered four boxes of cyanotype prints by Thomas W. Smillie, the first custodian and curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of photography. In her artist book Stutters (Printed Matter, 2021), Hurth builds on several years’ research to rework the original cyanotypes into visual montage, sequencing images that provide a record of Museum life as it documents a ‘national’ collection in the making.
For her exhibition at Page Not Found, Hurth has developed a new installation that expands from her research and the material that created Stutters. The title refers to the photographic process of superimposition of two or more exposures on one image, and serves as a metaphor for the artist: as a way of looking at the history of the institution through the subjects of the photographs, and at the same time at the institution historicising its own history through the infrastructure of the archives.
Dominique Hurth’s exhibition is the first instalment of Mal d’Archive, the new public programme of Page Not Found, exploring the space between artistic, archival and publishing practices. This programme will span over several years and encompass events, exhibitions, workshops and residencies.
Dominique Hurth (1985, France) is a visual artist working with installations, sculptures and editions. Her work has been exhibited i.a. Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Memorial of Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart) and is part of several collections. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016-17) and Prize of the Berliner Senate / Governing Mayor of Berlin at ISCP, New York (2014).
DOUBLE EXPOSURE(S)/ STUTTERS opens on March 8, 7 pm. The exhibition is on view until May 8, free entrance. Made possible with the financial support of the Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.
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21/03/2024
THE VÖLVA’S BESTIARY OF BEST FRIENDS – Book Launch with Rasmus Myrup and Sabo Day
To celebrate Rasmus Myrup’s exhibition at our dear and near 1646, we are happy to invite you to discover his latest publication, in company of its prolific designer Sabo Day.
In The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology. Making their first appearance as a series of sculptures by Myrup, the characters from this Bestiary are all seen through the lens of a Seeress – The Völva. She knows everything her folkloric friends have been through and will endure in the future. It’s a heavy burden: the workaholism of The Bog Lady, failed attempts by The Elven Girls to end the Patriarchy, Freya’s sob story, the sexual frustrations of The Stream Man and Hild’s inability to stop the war between her lover and her dad. In Myrup’s world, they have befriended each other across multiple spheres of fiction – if they don’t know each other, they at least know of each other.
Whether they are embodiments of natural elements, misunderstood misses of myth or corporeal manifestations of counter-culture, these figures have all lived outside the realm of human civilization – but just like us, they have a knack for being unable to see the obvious ways they could fix their flaws and save themselves. The Völva’s lips runneth over with scaldingly hot takes and reads her friends probably can’t handle – so she writes them down. To clear the visions from her retina, she draws them. She is not a tattletale, she lets destiny run its course – but in one book she unleashes her pent up load of sticky secrets: The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends.
We welcome you on 21 March, 19:00. Free entrance.
05/04/2024 – 07/04/2024
Rewire festival
We are pleased to for the third time be part of the context program of rewire festival. At Page Not Found, the festival will host a weekend of intimate listening sessions around the theme of Times and Territories. Before and between the sessions there will be Norient + Corecore Listening stations.
Friday 5 April
Environmental Listening in Delhi, conversation/listening session, 13:00 – 14:00, by Suvani Suri and Hannes Liechti.
Pulsating Apotropaic Kisses (tbc), conversation, 14:30 – 15:30, with Avita Maheen and Pinky Htut Aung.
Corecore deep fried listening session, talk and listening session, 16:00 – 17:00, by Callum Dean, Tjobo Kho and Jan-Pieter ‘t Hart.
Saturday 6 April
21 Ingredients, listening session, 11:30 – 12:45, Andrius Arutiunian Giada and Dalla Bontà.
Listening to the voices from the roof of the world, listening session, 14:00 – 15:00, Nischal Khadka.
Sounding a Livable Life I, lecture / reading, 16:00 – 17:00, Brandon LaBelle.
Sunday 7 April
Sounding a Livable Life I, lecture / reading, 13:00 – 14:00, Brandon LaBelle.
Blurred waters: ambient explorations through river landscapes – listening session and talk with Kristoffer Kjærskov (EOM)
We welcome you to Blurred waters: ambient explorations through river landscapes, listening session and talk with Kristoffer Kjærskov (EOM). Page not Found invited Kristoffer Kjærskov to contribute to the program of rewire festival.
Kristoffer Kjærskov (* 1984, Denmark) is a sound and visual artist. His practice intertwines investigations between locations and materialities, where found and processed fragments create bridges between experiences and are used as elements in new collages and assemblages. Through his sound project Economy Of Meaning (EOM), he works in a genre-bending field that explores techniques, moods and formats. In 2023, his LP album Site Seeing was released on the London-based label Calling Cards. The release is based on recordings from the landscape around Sharjah (UAE), where he was an artist-in-residence at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2021. Currently, Kjærskov is a fellow at the Danish Institute in Rome, where he is working on a sound project centered around the Tiber River.
In April, he will launch an artist book at the exhibition platform O-Overgaden in Copenhagen. Previously, Kjærskov has performed his music live at Iklectik Art Lab (London), Mayhem (Copenhagen), PAS (Berlin), Click Festival (Helsingør, DK), WestGermany (Berlin) and News Of the World Gallery (London, UK). His visual art has recently been exhibited at SIMIAN (Copenhagen) and Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence).
For the listening session at page not found Kristoffer will be presenting his research centred around object oriented sound and ambient layers and perform pieces from his current projects.
The entry is free of charge.
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🔻“Dominique Hurth’s artists’ book Stutters gives visibility to an overlooked late nineteenth and early twentieth century archive of photographs in the Smithsonian’s collection, one of the few cultural institutions in the United States that is primarily federally funded. It’s a book not only about a years-long literal and conceptual journey she took to get closer to this material, but also about how images are made and reproduced, how they are selected and excluded.
In a sense, it’s an unlikely “collaboration” between Hurth and Thomas W. Smillie, the Smithsonian employee who took the photographs more than a hundred years ago.
Through Hurth’s reproduction of images, we are left to wonder: How does engaging with an archive amplify and modify the knowledge it contains? What is forgotten in the Smithsonian’s history? In what way does mechanical reproductions allow for new readings of old images?
What is at stake in the selection and omission of objects and...
🔻“Dominique Hurth’s artists’ book Stutters gives visibility to an overlooked late nineteenth and early twentieth century archive of photographs in the Smithsonian’s collection, one of the few cultural institutions in the United States that is primarily federally funded. It’s a book not only about a years-long literal and conceptual journey she took to get closer to this material, but also about how images are made and reproduced, how they are selected and excluded.
In a sense, it’s an unlikely “collaboration” between Hurth and Thomas W. Smillie, the Smithsonian employee who took the photographs more than a hundred years ago.
Through Hurth’s reproduction of images, we are left to wonder: How does engaging with an archive amplify and modify the knowledge it contains? What is forgotten in the Smithsonian’s history? In what way does mechanical reproductions allow for new readings of old images?
What is at stake in the selection and omission of objects and archival documents for a collection? What are the limitations of reproduction and documentation? In what ways do politics impact the display of collections?..” — fragment of Kari Conte’s essay “Faithful Documents” for “Stutters” (Printed Matter) publication by Dominique Hurth.
🔺“Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” is on view at Page Not Found until May 8, 2024....
🖤⚫️List of pigments for each of the eight high pigmented silkscreen prints by Dominique Hurth:
1: Bone Black (created by grinding and sieving bone charcoal, which is produced by the dry distillation of animal bones)
2: Aniline Black (the oldest black synthetic pigment in the chemical industry)
3: Peach Black (made by charring peach kernels)
4: Cherry Black (made by charring cherry kernels)
5: Iron Oxide Black
6: Grape Seed Black (made by charring grape seeds)
7: Carbon/Industry Black
8: Spinel Black (only “true” black in the pigment industry)
Dominique Hurth’s solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” is on view until May 8, 2024
▪️Photos 4-8 by Jhoeko
🖤⚫️List of pigments for each of the eight high pigmented silkscreen prints by Dominique Hurth:
1: Bone Black (created by grinding and sieving bone charcoal, which is produced by the dry distillation of animal bones)
2: Aniline Black (the oldest black synthetic pigment in the chemical industry)
3: Peach Black (made by charring peach kernels)
4: Cherry Black (made by charring cherry kernels)
5: Iron Oxide Black
6: Grape Seed Black (made by charring grape seeds)
7: Carbon/Industry Black
8: Spinel Black (only “true” black in the pigment industry)
Dominique Hurth’s solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” is on view until May 8, 2024
▪️Photos 4-8 by Jhoeko...
🔹Heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the unveiling of our new space and the opening of Dominique Hurth’s exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/Stutters”.
🔹Special thanks to Jacob Wallett for building this new ship, Trang Ha for taking care of the exquisite bites, our dear team and volunteers for all the hard work, as well as everyone who has been supporting us.
🔹The exhibition is on view until May 8, 2024.
Made possible with the financial support by the Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.
📸Photos by @stevenmaybury 🌚
🔹Heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the unveiling of our new space and the opening of Dominique Hurth’s exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/Stutters”.
🔹Special thanks to Jacob Wallett for building this new ship, Trang Ha for taking care of the exquisite bites, our dear team and volunteers for all the hard work, as well as everyone who has been supporting us.
🔹The exhibition is on view until May 8, 2024.
Made possible with the financial support by the Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.
📸Photos by @stevenmaybury 🌚...
Stutters, Dominique Hurth’s book published by @printedmatterinc, serves as the starting point for her upcoming exhibition at Page Not Found. The artist’s book unfolds in a visual montage of cyanotype prints by the first curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s photography collection. In her exhibition, Double Exposure(s), Hurth enlarges the world of each image and traces a photographic lineage through a meticulous reproduction process. Both projects quietly break apart the violent taxonomy of an archive.
Double Exposure(s), Hurth’s first solo show in the Netherlands, also marks the inauguration of our new location. You’re warmly invited to explore both, this Friday from 19:00!
Stutters, Dominique Hurth’s book published by @printedmatterinc, serves as the starting point for her upcoming exhibition at Page Not Found. The artist’s book unfolds in a visual montage of cyanotype prints by the first curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s photography collection. In her exhibition, Double Exposure(s), Hurth enlarges the world of each image and traces a photographic lineage through a meticulous reproduction process. Both projects quietly break apart the violent taxonomy of an archive.
Double Exposure(s), Hurth’s first solo show in the Netherlands, also marks the inauguration of our new location. You’re warmly invited to explore both, this Friday from 19:00!
🙏Thank you to everyone who is helping us to build, move and install!
We open this Friday, March 8 during @hoogtijdenhaag with the solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” by Dominique Hurth!
📍Our new space is located at Boekhorststraat 102-104, a few steps away from the former location.
❤️to Jacob for building our new home; Eva, Ann-Sophie, Bart for immense support; Shana, Kristján, Wu for kindest help! ❤️
🙏Thank you to everyone who is helping us to build, move and install!
We open this Friday, March 8 during @hoogtijdenhaag with the solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” by Dominique Hurth!
📍Our new space is located at Boekhorststraat 102-104, a few steps away from the former location.
❤️to Jacob for building our new home; Eva, Ann-Sophie, Bart for immense support; Shana, Kristján, Wu for kindest help! ❤️...