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    ft. | senakirfa A. & S*an D. Henry-Smith

    Date:
    22 up to 26 May 2025
    Location:
    → puntWG
    WG Plein t/o nr 80
    1054 DM Amsterdam
    Open:
    • Saturday 14:00—17:00
    • Sunday 14:00—17:00
    Admission
    Free admission
    Amsterdam Art Week 2025 Open today from 14:00 to 17:00

    puntWG presents the new exhibition ft. which will be opened Friday 16 May and will also be visited during Amsterdam Art Week 2025. In this exhibition, senakirfa A. and S*an D. Henry-Smith will show new work in which poetry, sound and image come together.

    By hard experience they had learnt that isolated efforts were doomed to failure

    ~ C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins

    senakirfa A. is an interdisciplinary artist and poet exploring African diasporic world formation in Amsterdam through poetry, sculpture and print techniques.

    S*an D. Henry-Smith (New York, 1992) works with poetry, photography, and sound. Their book Wild Peach (2020) was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award. They have exhibited at ROZENSTRAAT and White Columns, and received grants from, among others, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Fulbright Programme.

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