Zachary Formwalt Three Exchanges opens November 27 at SMBA
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents the solo exhibition Zachary Formwalt –Three Exchanges. In three recent video installations, Zachary Formwalt focuses on the architecture of the new OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange designed at the end of the nineteenth century by the socialist architect, H.P. Berlage. The three installations dig into a fundamental issue surrounding financial trade: whereas financial transactions seem to dictate our economy and thus their effects can be felt everywhere, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote, unavailable for any kind of actual human encounter. The architecture of the stock exchanges serves as a starting point to a profound investigation into the limitations of photography to represent capital and into the interrelationships between financial capitalism and image making.
Opening: Thursday, November 27, 5pm
Rozenstraat 59, 1016 NN Amsterdam
Saturday, Dec. 29, 10:30am: ‘Art, Capital and Avant-Garde’ in De Balie, Amsterdam
In relation to the exhibition in SMBA, a debate will be organized in De Balie on Saturday 29 November in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend. With the participation of: Olav Velthuis, Beatrix Ruf, Zachary Formwalt, Matthew Slotover, moderated by Defne Ayas.
More information and tickets at debalie.nl
Image: Zachary Formwalt, Unsupported Transit, 2011, single-channel HD video with sound 14 minutes 25 seconds