MELTING SANDS. Glass in Contemporary Art
In the organizer's words:
Gabriele Beveridge, Gwenneth Boelens, Elio J Carranza, Kasia Fudakowski, Paul Hance, Annika Kahrs, Yaël Kempf, Katharina Maderthaner, Mischa Kuball, Narges Mohammadi, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Mathilde Rosier, Jeremy Shaw, Slavs and Tatars, Jeanine Verloop
To mark the 150th anniversary of the former Lennarz glassworks, where the Philara Collection's janitor still worked and in whose renovated premises it has been based since 2016, the Philara Collection is presenting a comprehensive exhibition on glass in contemporary art. The exhibition explores the compatibility of structure and chaos and focuses on collectivity and international collaboration - all characteristics of glass and its production.
MELTING SANDS explores glass as a material and the resources that can replace glass. What can we learn from glass? What metaphors and utopias lie hidden in its contradictory materiality? The exhibition posits the thesis that glass enables us - like no other material - to think complexity and unite opposites. Glass is defined as an amorphous, disordered solid, as a supercooled liquid or even as a fourth state of matter. It solidifies without crystallizing and is therefore in a metastable state. Glass therefore permanently carries the potential for spontaneous transformation.
Curators of the exhibition: Julika Bosch, Hannah Niemeier
The exhibition is supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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