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Crooked Elbow, Serpent Brain MFA class of 2017 Graduate Exhibition
Crooked Elbow, Serpent Brain was the 2017 Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art graduate exhibition and performance program, and a collaboration between the graduating artists and staff of the PZI MFA and Showroom MAMA, Galerie Kromme Elleboog, and Worm_UBIK.
Crooked Elbow, a translation of Kromme Elleboog, refers to an infamous alleyway in the cultural heart of Rotterdam; Serpent Brain hints at our reptilian instincts of fear and survival.
Featuring: Connie Butler, Angelica Falkeling, Tor Jonsson, Ash Kilmartin, Anni Puolakka, Nicholas Riis, Erika Roux, Eothen Stearn, Viktor Timofeev, and Daniel Tuomey. Guided by: Marloes de Vries (curator, MAMA), Charlien Adriaenssens (programmer, WORM_UBIK), and Nathalie Hartjes (director, MAMA).
Crooked Elbow, Serpent Brain was accompanied by a publication designed by Yin Yin Wong, produced at Publication Studio Rotterdam. It contains contributions by the graduating artists, MAMA director Nathalie Hartjes, PZI MFA tutors Liesbeth Bik, Bernd Krauß, Katarina Zdjelar, and PZI MFA course director, Vivian Sky Rehberg. A publication excerpt, “I’m Still Afraid of All of You,” appears in the Words section of Binder, with special thanks to Yin Yin Wong.
Photos and video by Sol Archer 2017.
Crooked Elbow, Serpent Brain
Connie Butler
in a whisper, as though saying something you shouldn’t (2017), sound, table top, plastic grass, digital photographs, custom lamps, cotton curtain, clocks
Tor Jonsson
A Digester Miscellany End on Love (2017), cyanotypes on aquarelle cotton rag, giclée prints on Hahnemühle paper, sun-bleached “Ocean paper” from the Fengersfors paper factory ruins, partly sun-bleached drawing inks on wood, copper etchings made with UV printer, photographic fixer and salt water, radar magnifier from cargo ship H.M.S. Marietta, copper air pipe from ship-scrapyard; cut, soldered, corroded, polished
A Digester Miscellany Epistles (2017), performance
Anni Puolakka
Rumina 3 (2017), oat milk, latex, metal, bucket, fountain pump, selfie stick clamps, video
Rumina (2017), performance
Nicholas Riis
Project Terra Wear 2-17 D66 (2017), polystyrene, jesmonite, wax, fiberglass, epoxy, knee protectors, latex
Project Terra Wear 2-17 Omnibus (2017), polystyrene, jesmonite, wax, fiberglass, epoxy, knee protectors, latex, faux fur, diverse textiles
Project Terra Wear 2-17 Tiny Terror (2017), polystyrene, jesmonite, wax, fiberglass, epoxy, knee protectors, latex
Erika Roux
A Couple Things (2017), two-channel HD video
At the window, on the bed, behind the door (2017), HD video
Eothen Stearn
An ant moves across the page (2017), performance
Moments (2017), metal, rope
Neighbourhood (2017), individual works
Sleutels (2017), wood, ink, varnish
Viktor Timofeev
Physical Capacity (2017), acrylic on canvas, digital print on wall, two-channel realtime simulation, TV mounts, chairs
Daniel Tuomey
FLAT MATES (2017), spruce ply, timber screws, paint, candles, T-shirts, drawings, strip lights
Feeling as big as a house (2017), performance