If Only We Could Master Miracles
Exhibition Konden we wonderen bedwingen / If only we could master miracles including Justin Bennett’s film Vilgiskoddeoayvinyarvi – Wolf Lake in the Mountains at Kunstfort Vijfhuizen (NL)
06/10 – 15/12/2024
Opening: 06/10, 14-17h
Why do natural phenomena sometimes leave us feeling so deeply moved? How come we often feel the urge to understand, mimic, and even master them? And will we ever be satisfied?
If Only We Could Master Miracles is an exhibition programme inspired by the human fascination with the sublime – an experience around the mystery of the universe, flooding mind and body with emotion. The programme explores our unrelenting drive to grasp, measure, and master ecological and cosmic phenomena and the forces of decay and impermanence that influence the process. Through research and speculation, topics covered include the sound of the northern lights, the silkworm industry, 20,000-year-old ice bubbles, the deepest man-drilled hole on earth and the art world’s exploitation of fish.
With work by: Justin Bennett (UK), Suzette Bousema (NL), Mónica Mays (ES), Sébastien Robert (FR), and Annabel Quick (UK).
Justin Bennett will show the single screen version of Vilgiskoddeoayvinyarvi – Wolf Lake in the Mountains together with site-specific sound pieces and archival material.
Practical:
06/10 – 15/12/2024
Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
Fortwachter 1
2141 EE Vijfhuizen
Netherlands