Formula 1

Things look different at high speed. This morning, I read an article stating that today will be the shortest day ever measured. The earth, it turns out, is rotating faster than it should be. Things are spinning out of control –but then, of course, ‘things’ were never really ‘in control’ to begin with. Are we approaching a tipping point? Will we feel it the moment our organs are rearranging, or will we simply find ourselves wondering, one morning, at what point did we start needing our coffee to taste like antifreeze? Will we tell ourselves that maybe it’s just the roast? Will we, here, is will I, is will you. Same, same, but different, like the slipping of the afternoon sun into evening, calm –a full circle that doesn’t come full circle, but starts to spiral instead.

For Formula 1, the participants of De Ateliers have invited five artists to collaborate on an evolving group show. The exhibition is composed in two acts, with an interlude separating the two. In a week of public programming, Woonhuis will undergo various shifts and transitions as the artists are invited to revisit their work, or the exhibition as a whole. Visitors, too, are welcome to revisit and stick around during the interlude –to witness or take part as the artists add, erase, alter, hijack, soil and polish.