CARTE BLANCHE #1
LOVE AFTER LOVE
Curated by Wumen
April 8th – May 6th, 2023
The Greenroom is located at Prinsengracht 645 in The Frozen Fountain.
Tuesday – Saturday | 10AM – 6PM
Love After Love, is about coming back home to oneself after a long-life journey of longing for love but with empty hands and broken hearts. It assured that people can rediscover a durable, sustaining love. Moreover, this love won’t stem from vanity or illusion but rather from the mature appreciation of all one’s life has to offer.
“Love After Love” promises that the end of one love won’t be the end of all love—that love, in fact, is something continuous and renewable. Using images of “wine” and “bread” (reminiscent of the Christian ritual of Holy Communion) to suggest that getting reacquainted with yourself entails a kind of deeply spiritual, and even holy, connection.
Artists invited will present their interpretation/ question of renewable love, reconnection with oneself, and soul cleansing.
Participating artists includes Catelijne Boele, Dimitris Gketsis, Elly Strik, Joseph Thabang Palframan, Juwon Lee, Karin Kytökangas, Lema Ahmadi, Leyla de Muynck, Rik Meijers, Ronald Ophuis, Wumen, Yang-ha
About Wumen
Wumen is a painter and independent curator based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the founder of Sirius Initiative, a co-creation art platform focusing on accelerating climate-conscious social change. As a Mongolian growing up in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, Wumen is a daughter of the grasslands. Everything she holds dear to her heart is a gift from this generous nature. Her curatorial interests revolve around human kindness and vulnerability in our time.
