With Love, Nieuw-West 1 Finnisage

Join the finnisage of "With Love Nieuw West 1" exhibition.

15:00 - 18:00,
Zaventemweg 89, Amsterdam.

This series is focused on the makers from Amsterdam Nieuw-West. It starts from September and finishes in December 2024. This series is dedicated to works and practices that relate to the subject of transcendental love. We see it as love that transcends categories, heals, and contributes to peace. We live in a time when polarization resulted in a new wave of planetary crisis: the division of body, mind and soul, nature and culture, individual and collective. With Love is a reaction to the current situation. The first exhibition is focused on the power of communal creation, female connection and the language of symbolism.

Elibelinde by Müge Yilmaz
Wooden sculptures that borrow from the Kilim language of traditional Anatolian woven fabrics and translate them into a different material. The symbology is like a composed language that narrates stories of love, marriage, protection, nature and the evil eye. Elibelinde (hands on hips)is a symbol of the mother goddess, mother with child in womb, fertility, and abundance, invented by the female weavers of kilims. Müge’s work examines the paradoxes around the concept of protection with focus on community, survival and belief. Through performances, photographs and installations she creates immersive atmospheres inspired by archeology, mythology and feminist science-fiction. https://www.mugeyilmaz.com/

Codes of Creation by Rosa Smits

This textile piece, initiated by Rosa Smits, was woven in collaboration with a group of Amazigh women from rural Morocco. Each piece has a unique shape and carries a self designed symbol, representing the unity of their creators, bonded through weaving and womanhood. Love, growth, care, fertility, plants, jewelry, the Amazigh sign, connection - all these subjects appear symbolically in the piece. Rosa is intrigued by the social, tactile, and communicative nature of weaving. Driven by a fascination for societies that coexist harmoniously with each other and its environment, her work revolves around two profound questions: how to live and how to work together? https://www.rosasmits.com/

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