Westerpark Art Exhibition: Two meters ten by Dilruba Tayfun

One-day only outdoor solo exhibition by Dilruba Tayfun, with recent large-format paintings and expanded media at the water-lily ponds.
About this Event

This is the second iteration of an outdoors, open to public, one-day exhibition format Tayfun has developed, as well as her sixth exhibition in Westerpark. The artist perceives the park as the extension of her studio. Curated by Paula Vilageliu, Two meters ten proposes a one-day blooming, where intensity and disappearance coincide within a limited temporal window.

With a ground up approach to painting, Tayfun works with unusual, gathered instruments such as reed stems, tree bark and seagrass “Fuzzballs”, conventional brushes taking on a supporting role. Combined with the emergence of bathing rituals in the studio and diluted color solutions pouring out of a palm vessel - Tayfun’s studio becomes a fluid, imagined ecosystem. An environment where water rituals intersect everything, and sustains this process.

Visitors are invited to navigate the installation inside the ponds through a heightened awareness of movement, depth, orientation and sensory immersion. Situated amidst water lilies and wavering reeds, Two meters ten engages with questions of accessibility, temporality and collective experience, rooted in an embodied experience of water.

The exhibition and all activities throughout the day are completely free. Visitors are welcome to drop in at any point between 14:00 and 19:00, or join the live performance, soundwalk, collective making activity and curators’ tours throughout the afternoon.

Exact coordinates of the two water-lily ponds, directly across Gashouder, Klönneplein 1: 52°23'10.2"N 4°52'09.9"E

Agenda

🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Press & Industry Preview (By invitation / request via [email protected])
🕑: 02:00 PM
Official Public Opening
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Reed: A soundwalk – Live Opening Performance
Host: Dilruba Tayfun

Info: An interactive live performance by Dilruba Tayfun and composer, saxophonist Floris van der Vlugt. Inside the water-lily ponds and surrounding reeds, Tayfun immerses visitors inside her artistic process and sense of wonder. Guided by the artists, visitors are invited to participate in the soundscape, before continuing with the soundwalk individually.

🕑: 02:50 PM
Reed: A soundwalk / Riet: Een klankwandeling (Headphones required)

Info: An updated version of the original soundwalk is free to experience with headphones using WesterparkWalk App, available in English & Dutch starting at the water-lily ponds. The walk is an informal guide to experiencing the reed plant, the park becomes an extension of the studio, a step inside wondering and artistic process. The soundwalk can be experienced individually using the WesterparkWalk App on App Store and Google Play. Drop-in anytime.

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Rolling – A collective making activity
Host: Dilruba Tayfun

Info: A collective making activity initiated by Dilruba Tayfun and artist Jurriaan Wesselink, taking place just outside the ponds. Using charcoal-based ink, visitors are invited to contribute to a collective work and take a fragment of it home. Drop in anytime between 15:30 and 16:30; participation takes around 30 minutes.

🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Curators' tours (ENG & NL)
Host: Paula Vilageliu

Info: Tours led by curators Paula Vilageliu (ENG) and Jasmijn Mol (NL).