THE ISLAND, 2012 exhibition curated by Irene de Craen and Jonas Ohlsson for FATFORM
In the past, distant islands represented gaps in the map of human exploration. Besides being a refuge from regulations for humans, the isolation of islands such as Galapagos, Madagascar and Australia, allowed animals and plants to find their own shapes and behaviours, creating something wild and unique which would not be possible anywhere else. Suburbs, such as the Bijlmer, are islands in their own right, with distinct structures, rules and regulations. Geographically, and in many ways culturally too, the Bijlmer is cut off from the rest of Amsterdam, and hidden within this island lies FATFORM, our own little free state: our own island in a concrete, urban sea.
Curators Irene de Craen and Jonas Ohlsson have asked artists with their own exotic visual language to reflect on the idea of the island and relatic topics such as utopia, anarchy, autonomy, isolation and evolution.
With: Artun Alaska Arasli, Roi Alter, Jabu Arnell, Daniela Bershan, Melanie Bonajo, Sebastiaan Cornelis van Leeuwen van Daalen, François Dey, Gilbert van Drunen, Kaleb de Groot, Klaas Kloosterboer, Susan Kooi, Chris Meighan, Jonas Ohlsson, Jonas Liveröd, Anders Smebye and Barbara Skovmand Thomsen.