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Michael Stevenson
Tomasz Skibicki
Opening Saturday November 1st, 6-9 pm
Michael Stevenson and Tomasz Skibicki's exhibition considers GDL525 multipurpose functions as curatorial office, studio, exhibition space, and domestic interior, to imagine an architectural system where typology morphs into anatomy. ‘Incorporations’ borrows its title from processes of incorporation as blurrings and reformings of boundaries between organism and system, body and architecture, self and infrastructure, revealing complexity through scaling and doubling. The exhibition reframes corridors as digestive tracts, fire exits as throats and the entire building as a colossal body corporate whose circulatory system mirrors those of its inhabitants and visitors. The showcased works are new examinations of previously presented pieces staged for the tubular entrance corridors, the living room of apartment 525 and the high-rise fire exit of tower 5 of the monumental residential complex.
On November 13th, the exhibition will be extended with a talk by Michael Stevenson at the Rijksakademie Library. The talk departs from the works featured in the exhibition to exemplify the artist's four-decade-long ongoing investigation into the entanglement of belief, spiritual, psychiatric, and institutional systems of power, control, and domination, while opening a view onto the broader concerns and interests that have shaped his work and practice.
The exhibition was made possible with the support of the AFK - Amsterdam Fonds voor Kunsten.