Omdat de tentoonstelling Rietveld Uncut in het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam niet kon plaatsvinden vanwege de maatregelen om verspreiding van het coronavirus te voorkomen, maakten de deelnemers digitale vertalingen van hun projecten. De tentoonstelling is niet geannuleerd, maar herzien.
For the fourth consecutive time, the Rietveld Uncut team has worked towards an exhibition of these projects in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this year under the title Relating (to) Colour. Students investigated "colour" from different perspectives and meanings.
Colour structures our daily life and our actions, our relationships with others and the spaces in which we live. Within different historical and cultural contexts, however, colours have very different symbolic, psychological, material, and socio-political meanings.
Shortly before the installation of the exhibition and conference week at the museum, the government's guidelines regarding Covid-19 virus were released. As the physical exhibition and conference-week could not proceed, participants created digital translations of their projects instead.
Rein Wolfs, director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: "The students of the Rietveld Academie and the curators of Rietveld Uncut managed to quickly turn offline into online. We believe it is a great statement that, as a result, their work has nevertheless been given a platform. With current events, the medium shifts for once."
About the video:
The work that Lauren Fong developed for the Rietveld Uncut exhibition was intended as an 'immersive film' that was shown in an installation designed as the domestic gamer. Here she was exploring the concept of navigation in the context of cultural in-betweenness and mixed cultural identity from the perspective of a first-generation Cuban-European. The journey begins at her wake within a dream, as she deep dives and wanders through the spaces that embody her inner hybrid matter – an in-between space where memory and fantasy merge and overlap. In this dream you navigate towards a labyrinth of memories that morph as you move – you venture into a virtual space that embodies the hybridity and non-fixity of the self. Lauren Fong shows the video version for the adjusted presentation of Rietveld Uncut. Although this medium turns the visitor into a spectator, Fong tries to convey a similar experience.
