'' A Perpetual Daily Affect''
A Perpetual Daily Affect, presented by Josilda da Conceição, brings together the practices of Lisette de Greeuw, Quintus Glerum, Maria van der Togt, and Geraldo Dos Santos in a layered exploration of how perception, systems, and everyday gestures continuously reshape the meaning of images and objects. The exhibition unfolds as a shifting field of translation and observation, where the ordinary becomes a site of quiet transformation and subtle dislocation.
Across painting, embroidery, installation, and digital environments, the artists engage with the mechanisms through which reality is mediated—through language, technology, memory, and material processes. Rather than presenting stable representations, their works expose the structures that produce them: coded diagrams, translucent surfaces, speculative digital reality, and symbolic objects that carry the residue of lived experience.
De Greeuw approaches textile and drawing as systems of translation, transforming organic processes of decay into embroidered color structures that oscillate between language and image. Glerum constructs speculative digital worlds where technological infrastructures remain visible, revealing the fragile boundary between immersive fantasy and material reality. Van der Togt isolates fragments of everyday life, allowing plastic surfaces, reflections, and subtle distortions to destabilize the certainty of what is seen. Dos Santos engages with layered narratives of migration, memory, and cultural symbolism, assembling materials and forms that speak to the fluid nature of belonging.
Together, these practices create a speculative environment of shifting interpretations, where perception itself becomes unstable and generative. Meaning emerges not as a fixed condition but as a continuous process—unfolding through repetition, translation, and encounter. Within this landscape of images and materials, the everyday becomes a mutable terrain in which new relationships between object, memory, and perception quietly take shape.