Folding Ambivalence – Pauline Nijenhuis and Zeno van den Broek
Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, NL
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/