Frans van Hoek

A performative Retrospective of the artist showing one work from each semester — only the artist has remade, reimagined all the works. A retro-active approach, asking what we should do with the past – look at it, or change it? 

The 8 works further explore the various ways the past and present interact, malfunction, collapse into each other. 

Infiltrating recognizable, canonical forms (such as the retrospective) in order to question established ways of remembering, and destabilise notions of history, greatness, linear time, and how we handle this infinite past. 

An armour, football jerseys, world maps, an amber fossil, archival images, historic reenactors.

A ramshackle joyride across different timescales and mediums. The fragmented, polyphonic song of the world. 

This unceasing, always, trying again.

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1. A painting of two archeologists unearthing a tomb.

2. Found image of women producing globes in a factory in London, 1955.

3. An armour shaped like a North Face puffer jacket and Adidas track pants.

4. A MuseumKaart preserved in amber.

5. National football jerseys for civilizations wiped out by climate change.

6. A world map renamed by children.

7. A marathon from Van Gogh's house in Arles to the mental asylum in St. Remy.

8. Carnival cutout of historic reenactors.