Through Repetition
Time, Memory, and Continuity
At Bradwolff & Partners, "Through Repetition" unfolds with works by Susanne Khalil Yusef, Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi, Sam Samiee, Fahrettin Örenli and Yang-Ha.
At a time when established forms of ritual and meaning are losing their self-evidence, repetition appears here not as a mechanism, but as shift. What returns does so, altered. Sometimes barely perceptible, sometimes just enough to tilt meaning. Form seems, along the way, to give something up or to take something on that does not settle.
In the work of Susanne Khalil Yusef, memory is not stable. It moves with displacement and with what slips away from remembrance. In ceramics, textiles and sculpture, forms remain present without coinciding with what they show. History does not appear as a line, but as a remainder: something that lingers without closing.
In Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi's work, images move through landscapes that do not stabilise. Figures appear and disappear in the same gesture. What remains is a temporary configuration of presence, in which the distinction between the natural and the constructed continues to shift.
In Sam Samiee’s work, painting touches on something that cannot be contained by painting alone. Surface and object intersect without resolving into unity. References to art history and literature do not function as a frame, but as pressure that shifts the work. What begins to form breaks open almost immediately. In this process, images emerge in which myth, history and place resonate without becoming fixed.
In Fahrettin Örenli’s work, language moves without fixed direction. Image, text and gesture circulate without attaching themselves. Autobiography appears as a dispersion of positions, rather than as a narrative. Meaning remains in circulation, without a moment of arrival.
In Yang-Ha’s work, recognition itself becomes unstable. What appears legible withdraws from that legibility at the same time. Scenes open briefly, but do not hold. The familiar is not confirmed, but shifted again in the act of looking.
What connects these practices is not a shared point of departure or method, but a condition in which meaning does not stabilise, and continues to shift within the act of looking itself.
"Through Repetition" is part of a broader programme and will be presented again from 10 May at Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam East, in a different constellation of artists.
About the artists
Susanne Khalil Yusef (1984, Germany) is a Palestinian artist based in the Netherlands, working with installation, sculpture, ceramics and textiles. During her BA studies, she spent a semester at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah. Her work has been shown at Museum Arnhem, the TextielMuseum Tilburg and Slash Gallery (WORM) in Rotterdam. Her work is included in the collections of Museum Arnhem, the TextielMuseum Tilburg and the Province of Gelderland.
Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (1968, Tehran, Iran) works with drawing and painting, video and film. She studied Fine Art at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen and completed her MFA at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown at, among others, IFFR, Azad Gallery in Tehran, the Drents Museum in Assen, Manifesta Office Amsterdam and Dazibao in Montreal. Her work is included in the collections of AkzoNobel, the ABN AMRO Art Collection, the Drents Museum, Museum Arnhem and the Amsterdam City Archives.
Sam Samiee (1988, Tehran, Iran) lives and works between Amsterdam and Tehran. He graduated from the University of Tehran in 2010 and received his Bachelor of Fine Art from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in 2013. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2016 he received the Royal Award for Modern Painting and in 2018 the Wolvecamp Prize for painting from the HeArtPool Foundation. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin and Kunstmuseum The Hague.
Fahrettin Örenli (1969, Pertek, Turkey) works across painting, drawing, photography, installation and writing. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He received the Royal Prize for Painting (2000) and the ABN AMRO Art Award (2004). His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Istanbul Modern, Art Sonje Center (Seoul), SMBA Amsterdam and DEPO Istanbul, and is held in collections such as the ABN AMRO Art Collection and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.
Yang-Ha (1994, Seoul, South Korea) works with painting, sculpture and installation between Amsterdam and Seoul. She graduated from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen in 2021. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at H47 in Leeuwarden, Gallery TOWED in Tokyo and the Korean Cultural Centre in Paris. Her work is included in the collections of the OCI Museum of Art in Seoul and the Art Bank of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.