Met UIT 010 × UIT 020 slaan Factor IJ en Kunstuitleen Rotterdam de handen ineen. Vier keer per jaar wisselen beide organisaties een kunstenaar uit: een Amsterdamse maker presenteert voor twee weken werk in Rotterdam, terwijl een Rotterdamse kunstenaar tijdelijk neerstrijkt in Amsterdam. De geselecteerde kunstenaars krijgen gelijktijdig twee weken lang een podium in de andere stad. Zo ontmoeten zij nieuw publiek, doen zij presentatie-ervaring op buiten hun eigen omgeving en breiden zij hun netwerk uit. Voor bezoekers biedt UIT 010 x UIT 020 een verrassende blik over de stadsgrenzen heen: nieuw werk, nieuwe makers en andere perspectieven.
Met trots verwelkomen we de eerste Amsterdamse kunstenaar in deze reeks: Eos Brüggen. Tussen 25 juni en 8 juli exposeert zij haar serie Companions in onze etalage. Te zien én te koop bij ons aan de Teilingerstraat 172 te Rotterdam. Lees hieronder over Eos en haar werk in haar eigen woorden:
Eos Brüggen (1996, she/they) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, theatre- and troublemaker based in the Netherlands. Her practice brings together ecology, eroticism and hauntology, to explore how lingering pasts, human-, and more-than-human bodies shape one another. Drawing on feminist, posthumanist, and phenomenological perspectives, they approach the body not as a closed entity, neither in time nor in space, but as a porous and relational presence, continuously formed through encounters with the other.
She is particularly interested in what appears absent yet remains present in the traces left behind; demanding we reconcile with what remains unfinished, unresolved, or no longer there. They investigate these questions through installation, textile, sculpture, drawing, performance, film, and text. Central to her practice is a labour-intensive and craft-based approach, in which tactility and materiality play important roles.
The cypress has long functioned as a living witness to what remains after loss: often found in cemeteries and memorial landscapes, its quiet, contemplative posture marks a place where presence and absence collide.
Appearing at three different scales, the cypresses in Companions resist a linear understanding of time, suggesting instead that past, present, and future continuously inhabit one another, finely layered and stitched together. The trees become bodies that carry traces across generations, suggesting that memory, care, and grief are never solely individual experiences, but move (between) bodies over time.
The cypresses are patch-worked and quilted. Many of the fabrics come from my grandmothers and great-grandmothers fabric drawers, or were taken from worn out clothes that were passed through generations in my family. In a more personal sense, the cypresses are also an ode to my youth and to the networks of care, labour, and memory embedded within these materials.
