Galerie Bart is proud to present Between Here and There, a duo exhibition featuring the works of Hemaseh Manawi Rad and Jannemarein Renout. An exhibition that deals with being in the in-between.
In her work, Hemaseh tries to reconcile her Persian roots and her current Western surroundings, despite the fact that they don't always mesh. This friction inspires her to create textile works that do justice to both cultures. Her work occupies the boundary between Middle Eastern and Western themes, such as family traditions and memories from her childhood. As such, her tapestries can be ‘read’ as diary excerpts. Using her own symbolic imagery, Hemaseh creates work in which recognition and mystery go hand in hand.
Jannemarein, in her work, tries to visualise time. Daylight and weather conditions are her medium. Her instruments are flatbed scanners, which she places outdoors. For nineteen minutes the scanner registers the changes in its environment and depicts them as an image. Jannemarein creates various series in this way, which differ through the use of different types of scanners. Each scanner creates its own unique image.
During Between Here and There her RAIN series will be shown. While making this series, Jannemarein placed the scanners in the rain. As a result of the rain, which also made its way inside the machine, colourful images were created. Inspired by Carlo Rovelli, Jannemarein seeks the imagery of change, of happening in time, of being continuously in motion. After all, time does not allow itself to be captured. Just as we, ourselves, are constantly changing. That which is ‘real’ in the ‘now’ does not exist, it is just an event between here and there.