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The Ground Up And The Washed Down is an exhibition curated by Yin Yin Wong, featuring work by Hieke Pars, Raffia Li, Junghun Kim, Gayatri Kodikal, Gabi Dao, Fileona Dkhar and Dagmar Bosma. The exhibition can be seen from 8 July to 27 August at A Tale of A Tub. The opening will take place on July 8 from 16.00:18.00 pm to XNUMX:XNUMX pm.

It started with the body. The body, bruised and aching after working from sunrise to sunset in the harbor, was washed here and found rest and recovery. Over the past hundred years, the bathhouse has been transformed into a monument that contains an art space. Here, the body is considered as a reflection of the celestial body that is our planet. Hidden in plain sight, the slow, all-consuming grinding that our comforts enable continues steadily.

In The Ground Up And The Washed Down we, the heirs of this grinding, draw from the filtered residue. What can we learn from what is left behind? What do we see when we lift the ground? What do we feel when we perceive with our whole body? How has time washed us away and how do we create space for recovery?

About curator Yin Yin Wong
Yin Yin Wong is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher concerned with the impact of Western modernity on the lives and cultures beyond her narrow paradigm. With their practice, Wong challenges dominant cadres who extract labor from workers' (immigrant) bodies, while at the same time depleting the world of natural resources.

Yin Yin's work has recently been exhibited at Natasha, Singapore Biennale '22 and their film 'Lotus Flowers' was screened at the 2022 Venice Biennale. New work will be shown later this year at Framer Framed, Amsterdam; CHAxART Rotterdam and in Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. She also teaches artistic research at the Royal Academy in The Hague and at Sint Lucas in Antwerp. Yin Yin was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy ('20 – '21). Their research on the Dutch-Asian diaspora was recently shown at Natasha, Singapore Biennale '22 and their film 'Lotus Flowers' was screened at the Venice Biennale in 2022. New work will be shown later this year at Framer Framed, Amsterdam; CHAxART Rotterdam and in Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur.

The Ground Up And The Washed Down and A Tale of A Tubs Open Call for Exhibition Proposals are created in close collaboration with CBK Rotterdam.

Image: Dagmar Bosma, SCRAP METAL DREAM BOY, 2021.

Photographer: Lili Huston-Herterich