We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the third and final chapter of our 40 Years Anniversary exhibition. “Back and Forth and Back Again – Part 3” closes a trilogy in which we have looked back at the history of artworks, conversations and exchanges built over four decades of Lumen Travo Gallery.
After a first chapter dedicated to politically engaged practices and a second focused on playful and provocative works, we widen the horizon for this final instalment, stepping into a more existential and philosophical dimension.
This closing chapter explores our relationship with nature – both nurturing and implacable – and the relentless exploitation of the natural world. More introspective than the preceding sections, it reflects on our place within a fragile ecosystem, drawing on history, philosophy and the broader human condition.
Artists Dennis Adams, Tiong Ang, Matea Bakula, Razia Barsatie, Cláudia Cristovão, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Rini Hurkmans, Remy Jungerman, Kristiina Koskentola, Otobong Nkanga, Daniel de Paula, Jens Pfeifer, Hans Scholten, Joseph Sassoon Semah and Judith Westerveld find a space here where their multidisciplinary practices are woven together, allowing meaningful connections and revelations on life and the afterlife to emerge.
What do we leave behind when we are gone?
Where some perceive darkness and oblivion, these artists find opportunity for new life to rise again. The selected works share a fragility of existence and an ancestral quest for meaning.
Image: Lumen Travo’s founder Marianne van Tilborg for HP magazine DE TIJD, 1991. Photo: Ronald Hoeben.