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Zul je voorzichtig zijn?
Ik weet wel dat je maar een boodschap doet
hier om de hoek
en dat je niet gekleed bent voor een lange reis
je kus is licht
je blik gerust
en vredig zijn je hand en voet
Maar achter deze hoek
een werelddeel
achter dit ogenblik
een zee van tijd
Zul je voorzichtig zijn?


Place(s)
This is an exhibition about place. It includes nineteen objects and traces of objects made from a diverse range of materials. They were chosen by the members of Think Tank: A European Iniative for the Applied Arts: we feel that they have some relationship to the theme of our thirs annual meeting " Place(s)".
The objects shown here reflect many of the themes that Think Tank are questioning: the place of intimacy; the idea of the model as a precarious and vulnerable embodiment of place; issues of homesickness, where home can be a material and a way of doing something; the private nature of applied arts and the way objects can replace human relationships; the meaning of place as a site where people live and where design and applied art improves the urban environment; cases of altered, transformed, questioned places for the exhibition of objects, where both artists and curators take part in the re-location of their works; a place for craft history alongside design history and art history ; the practice of crafts as something that is asking to be re-created and interacted with; craft objects in their semi-autonomous position of being both artistic and related to the world of material culture and craft as criticism of the homogenisation of productions in a consumer society saturated with styling.
This is an exhibition of the wonderful, beautiful, funny, melancholic and perverse ways in which objects connect with us in our varied place(s).
www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2007/places/marijke-schurink.html
