ROOF-A YOUNG TALENT & EXPERIMENT
MICHELLE PIERGOELAM | THE UNTANGLED TALES
MAY 18 – JULY 3, 2022
ROOF-A is proud to launch its long term programme, which provides a unique platform for young talent within a new cultural concept — a combination of coaching, investing, and presenting. The AkzoNobel Art Foundation is our first partner to offer its experience and network to coach this promising artist, introducing Michelle Piergoelam as the first one to kick off.
Michelle Piergoelam: Asking for stories, grasping for images
Piergoelam’s work is like a voice, soft but clear, asking the viewer to awaken their imagination by taking them back to the dark period of slavery on a plantation in Suriname. Her work makes no claim to documentary truth, and takes place in a Rotterdam forest. Her exceptional photographic skill and poetry of her imagination result in hopeful fables, with codes in old stories and folded headscarves which play an important role in Afro-Suriname culture. With gentle coercion, Piergoelam guides us through her stories, images and memories.
Join us under ROOF-A.