UNMOVEMENT, a solo exhibition by SHOE at The Curators Room, Amsterdam

UNMOVEMENT,a solo exhibition by SHOE at The Curators Room, Amsterdam

Opening on Friday 7th of April, 5pm-9pm

7  April  –  27 May,  2023

The Curators Room – Art Chapel Amsterdam

Prinses Irenestraat 19, Amsterdam 

Open: Thurs - Sat: 13 – 17  hrs

The Curators Room is proud to announce UNMOVEMENT, a solo exhibition by SHOE featuring his most recent body of work.

As explained by the artist, the title unmovement is inspired by the ever-present dichotomy of movement and stillness. While the painted surface of a work is a still object, the particles of the paint are constantly moving, as well as the material quality of the canvas itself: time consumes, and transforms. The crystallization of an impression is, however, present in the here and now, prompting a question concerning the nature of time and, inevitably, of change.

Unmovement is, therefore, arrested motion: the extract of something that is expanding, but is still in the present moment. This paradox is what lies at the core of the show, but also of Shoe’s entire artistic practice, which, if described, could be defined as a research into everything and the contrary of everything.

Sara van Bussel, Milano, March 2023

(in cooperation with Niels Shoe Meulman, Amsterdam and Gabriel Rolt, Barcelona)