I’m excited to invite you to my exhibition ARTEFACTS in the sacristy of @akerk.groningen

ARTEFACTS will be on show from 1 to 3 July, between 10:00 and 16:00. Entrance is free on Tuesday, and costs €2 on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Artefacts are defined both as culturally significant objects and as undesired side effects of (digital) processes of creation. These two seemingly contradictory definitions are intimately connected, for they bring each other into existence—as all opposites do. Since nothing can meaningfully describe itself, everything exists by virtue of its equal and opposite counterpart. We therefore need these artefacts, these undesired elements to make meaning of the world. Paying thorough attention to what is usually undesired, we might better understand how we give meaning to the realities we inhabit and how we constantly produce these ourselves.

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During my exhibition, Akerk’s magnificent, 35 meter wide tapestry on the history of slavery in Groningen will be on display in the ambulatory of the church.