Folding Ambivalence – Pauline Nijenhuis and Zeno van den Broek
Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, NL
06.07. – 01.09.2024

Folding Ambivalence – Pauline Nijenhuis and Zeno van den Broek Dat Bolwerck<br>Zutphen, NL<br>06.07. – 01.09.2024

Photo: Ivonne Zijp

Questioning the human relationship with the digital world is ubiquitous and crucial for our times. In the works of Zeno van den Broek and Pauline Nijenhuis, the visitor is invited to think about his or her own position in it. How do I move in today's world, where screens determine my physical position? How vulnerable do I become as a human being when different digital avatars are created?

The combination of the work of Nijenhuis and van den Broek emphasizes the analogue (woven works) and the digital (woven screens). The visitor moves between both worlds and sees the beauty of a disturbance.

The jacquard woven fabrics in collaboration with Textile Centre Haslach (Austria) are incorporated in the installation 'Digital Twins' and the work 'Oops Mistake'.

In collaboration with the TextileLab - TextielMuseum in Tilburg, Nijenhuis has created a 'fabric' consisting of embroidered passwords. This fabric formed the basis for an archetypal shirt tunic: 'Tunica, My Firewall'. At the opening of the exhibition, this tunic plays a role in the performance 'The Great Hackers Reveal'. In this performance, together with the bannermen of the Sint Martinus Schuttersgilde (from Gaanderen), she depicts the battle of the Firewall against possible hackers.

Pauline Nijenhuis would like to thank TextielLab Tilburg, Dat Bolwerck and Textile Centre Haslach for the cooperation.

More information: https://www.datbolwerck.nl/agenda/folding-ambivalence

Artists: https://www.paulinenijenhuis.com/ and https://www.zenovandenbroek.com/

Digital Twin, Pauline Nijenhuis

Digital Twin, Pauline Nijenhuis

Digital Twin, Pauline Nijenhuis

Oops Mistake Detail, Pauline Nijenhuis

Digital Twin, Pauline Nijenhuis

Oops Mistake, Pauline Nijenhuis

Detail: I am online by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Detail: I am online by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Digital Tweeling by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Digital Tweeling by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

I am Online by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Tunica Spyware by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Tunica My Firewall by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Vlaggen Hackers Reveal by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Digital Twins by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Oops Mistake by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Oops Mistake by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

Pixalation by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

The Amazon by Pauline Nijenhuis, Photo: Frank Mossink

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