There lies a fascinating paradox in our urge to hold onto the past. We build instruments to measure time, cherish fleeting scribbles, and cling to objects that have long lost their original function. Ultimately, our drive to capture time yields objects that lose all control, and looking back becomes a way to look forward.
Resonance of the Past dives into this human impulse to collect and preserve, but it does so without a dusty archival logic. It stems directly from the intuition of the studio and the raw energy of craftsmanship.
In the exhibition, the inventor’s obsessive quest meets the candid gaze of the child. The works displayed move between naive mechanics, tactile sculptures, and assemblages in which the maker’s trace remains tangibly present. This is not about polished artworks or weighty theories, but physical objects that dare to falter, that dare to question themselves. Wood, copper, plaster, and weathered textiles display their own wear and history. They evoke the atmosphere of hypothetical machines that refuse to cooperate, yet attain a strange, poetic beauty precisely because of it.
Memories are rarely neatly ordered either; they are layered, fragile, and occasionally a bit strange. The works in the exhibition thus function as quiet relics of desire, absence, and nostalgia, without ever becoming overly nostalgic or sentimental. Resonance of the Past simply invites the visitor to look, to slow down at the details, the flaws, and the material strength of things that deserve to be kept.
Each in their own way, the eight selected artists share the same melancholic perspective. Although they work with wildly different materials, they view time in a similar light: not as something that has passed, but as something that accumulates in the things around us. They dig into their own archives, question the traces people leave behind, and share a clear affection for slow, analogue creation.
Artists: Polien Boons, Attila Buonsenso, Jiyoung Chu, Deveny Faruque, Franciscus Kuijpers, Delta van Melle, Yinon Avior Philipsohn, Alice Vanderschoot
