Remembering a souvenir as an object (part 3)
February 16 to April 14, 2013
"Also in the third group exhibition Souvenir: memory as an object, artists show how they 'translate' memories into a work of art. This involves both the representation of collective memories and the visualization of tourist and personal memories. 38CC links the tourist souvenir to developments. in contemporary art and the social development of the emergence of a memory culture. A series of exhibitions and a parallel program with lectures, films and workshops reveal the different connotations, associations and meanings of the concept of souvenir. Because souvenir is more than the flat, mass produced object .. "Jeremy Deller, Barbara Visser, Marcel Pinas, Birthe Leemeijer, Michiel Romeyn, Efrat Zehavi
"For his world-famous video The Battle of Orgreave, the English artist Jeremy Deller organized a re-enactment of the historic British miners' strikes in 1984 in 2001. With the cooperation of those involved at the time. Like Deller, actor and visual artist Michiel Romeyn also refers to our collective. For the first time he shows his impressive photo installation of the bullet holes in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo: 'silent witnesses' of the December murders. The Surinamese artist Marcel Pinas presents an installation of totem poles and Afaka script at 38CC. With this work he brings the Surinamese Maroon culture has almost disappeared in memory. A Day in Holland / Holland in a Day by Barbara Visser and L'Essence de Mastenbroek by Birthe Leemeijer fall within the context of tourist souvenir, memory and (city) marketing. Visser photographed for her series two Dutch people painted as Japanese in the Holland Village in Nagasaki, Japan After an attempt to capture the essence of the disappearing Zwolle Mastenbroekpolder, Leemeijer, together with residents, developed a polder perfume that is now being sold all over the world. Finally, PassPortraits by Efrat Zehavi refers to personal remembrance. Based on personal conversations, she models portraits of visitors on the spot. "