Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents two exhibitions and an essay. Independently of each other they scrutinize aspects of Dutch culture and confront cultural classifications and their seeming certainties.
Created independently of each other, Ruitenbeek and Groenendaal’s exhibitions and the essay by Gario, share common ground. The step from ‘Blue Movie’ to Kim Holland is not so big and...
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Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents two exhibitions and an essay. Independently of each other they scrutinize aspects of Dutch culture and confront cultural classifications and their seeming certainties.
Created independently of each other, Ruitenbeek and Groenendaal’s exhibitions and the essay by Gario, share common ground. The step from ‘Blue Movie’ to Kim Holland is not so big and fits within a historic trajectory of claiming cultural freedom. By the same token, the position of the actors in Ruitenbeek’s film is not dissimilar to those of the asylum seekers in the Groenendaal video. Gario articulates such paradoxes in his essay. As a whole, it tests our capacity for tolerance. Do we accept Groenendaal’s self image? Can we stomach Gario’s critique of Dutch national cultural heritage? And, despite porn’s vast online presence, what do we think of a work by Ruitenbeek on the cusp of porn and art?
http://smba.nl/en/exhibitions/quinsy-gario-bart-groenendaal-s/