It is not strange for a long time that art is made with other materials than paint, marble and bronze. In recent years, flexible materials have been particularly popular.
The exhibition is about flexible materials that artists use, such as textiles. But it is also about the flexibility of artists who choose the material they work with, depending on the image they have in mind.
Marian Bijlenga is an artist who has been working with textiles for 40 years, and still manages to surprise us with her work.
Sibyl Heijnen has been working since her academy days with materials that are tactile and have recognisable characteristics such as pliability, colour, gloss, smell and natural drawing. She always responds to the space in which she is allowed to work, because the experience of her sculptures cannot be seen separately from the spatial, historical and symbolic context of which they are a part.
The younger generation also resorts to flexible materials when the subject demands it. In this sense, they are flexible in their choice of one material or another. The work of activist artist Joyce Overheul deals with inequality, sexism, feminism, power relations and emancipation. Overheul's textile work can be seen in Museum de Fundatie until 3 February 2022.
Valentina Gal dives into the world of (sub)cultures that are usually shielded from the rest of the world and becomes one of them. With the information she picks up there, she creates works like hairy sculptures, installations of traditional images and ornaments and digitally constructed videos. In her installations, the line between real and fake, between subject and object, is blurred.