Exhibtion: ‘Model Citizens – Continuum’
16/02/2010 – 14:1329.01.2010 – 14.03.2010:
Exhibition ‘Model Citizens – Continuum’ at the Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL
The ‘Model Citizens – Continuum’ project is the result of an artist-in-residence project taken up by artists Wouter osterholt and Elke Uitentuis in the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. Intrigued by social changes taking place within an urban setting, Osterholt and Uitentuis created an astonishingly true-to-life scale-model of the Antikhana district of Cairo. Collaborating with local artists, the personal wishes of local residents were assimilated into the model. as a result of which the once so realistic model was gradually changed into an utopian Lilliputian landscape.
And the model continues to evolve. During the exhibition, on a daily basis, the artists together with Ibrahim Saad and Hady Galal Kamar will continue working on the model in order to visualise the remaining ideas of local residents of Antikhana.
The ‘Model Citizens – Continuum’ project came about in the context of Made in Mirrors, a long-term international collaboration, aimed at reflection on, presentation of and exchange between artistic practices in various regions of the world. See also www.madeinmirrors.org. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication which is available in Schunck* from 29 January.