My grandmother used to collect articles, photographs, and other ephemera that reminded her of someone she knew. She would send me an article that she had neatly cut out of the newspaper and put in an envelope, and I would receive it on my doorstep. Nowadays, most of my friends text me when they read or see something I might like or need to know: “I just read this, and I had to think of you.”
The exhibition She spins the thread, she measures the thread, she cuts the thread at Nest, The Hague, is precisely about these intimate moments of connecting with other people. Having a chat with someone you never met before, finding common interests, or having different thoughts on a particular subject. The exhibition is a conversation between the three artists, colleagues, and friends: Mila Lanfermeijer, Ana Navas, and Evelyn Taocheng Wang. They got to know each other between 2012 and 2014 during the two-year residency program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. In their studio spaces, they talked about each other’s ways of working, discovering shared interests, and the use of similar materials (textile, drawing, painting) and approaches (repetition, appropriation, research). Read more
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