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Tentoonstelling
Tentoonstelling
Part of THE CAKE IS A LIE

HEAVENLY BODIES

Marcos Kueh, Funda Baysal and Ritvik Khushu

Malaysian artist Marcos Kueh uses textile art to untangle colonial narratives. In this installation, a christianized Indian deity is interacting with a copy of the statue “Heavenly Beauty”, fabricated by Indian artistic researcher Ritvik Khushu and Turkish studio ceramist Funda Baysal. The original copy of the “Heavenly Beauty” currently resides in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it was displaced from its original home in the Khajuraho temple of India. As a figure that is associated with the beauty of Indian philosphies of erotisms, many statues as such were removed and frowned upon during the christian suppression of India. The introduction of the statue as the permanent collection of the Asian pavilion of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam further shifted the role of the object from an object of spirituality to an object for anthropological analysis – slowly suffocating and laying to rest ancient ideologies and replacing them with western science and religion.

Marcos Kueh Funda Baysal Ritvik Khushu

Marcos Kueh

― Kunstenaar

Marcos Kueh is a textile artist from the Island of Borneo, with a professional background in Graphic Design and Advertising. His love affair with textiles started two years ago in his Academy’s textile workshop, while trying to find a sense of familiarity to grasp onto while studying in the Netherlands. Many of Kueh’s textile works are explorations and speculations of the traditional meaning of the craft in the contemporary context. His practice has motivated him to work and learn about both the traditional weaving techniques back in Borneo and the ‘modern’ industrial weaving mills here in the Netherlands.  

Funda Baysal

― Kunstenaar

Funda Baysal, born in Ankara, is an artist and ceramist and lives and works in Rotterdam. Her practice explores the relationship between individuals and their environment, moving back and forth between different frameworks. She creates solid forms that arise through the use of different materials, material combinations, tools, chemicals and heat.

Ritvik Khushu

― Kunstenaar

Ritvik Khushu is a Kashmiri artistic researcher and designer based between India and the Netherlands. His work is situated at the intersections of decolonial theory, design (as the edifice of modern aesthetics and materialism), and memory - that is material and immaterial, communal and ancestral. By employing storytelling as a tool of reclamation and reappropriation, his work seeks to reclaim, foreground and recover historically othered and injured knowledge, imaginaries, and worlding traditions. His work takes form through multi-media installations and performance to tell complex stories of shared heritage.  

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