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Alida van Gool

video , installatie , fotografie , Conceptueel , collage

Van Gool’s practice works with the mechanism of the gaze. Perception operates like a highway toward a predetermined destination: smooth, automatic, oriented. Her work intervenes in that automatism by throwing up roadblocks, forcing detours, making the viewer take exits they did not choose to take. In the gap that opens, the mechanism that was moving fluently toward resolution becomes visible as a mechanism.

As long as the gaze operates on autopilot, it passes for reality. It doesn’t announce itself as a gaze; it presents its destination and the road to it as simply what is there. What is culturally constructed, historically loaded, selectively organized reads as neutral, as given, as fact. Making the mechanism visible exposes the gaze for what it is: a construction.

The operating logic of the work is calibrated disruption. Van Gool constructs configurations of images and image environments in which the viewer’s anticipatory system is activated and then withheld from resolution: the image approaches coherence as a limit condition. In that gap, the mechanism of expectation becomes briefly perceptible as mechanism rather than nature. The disruption is never total: the work operates in the narrow band where the viewer can still reach for resolution, where the reflex toward closure remains legible as reflex.

Van Gool holds a dual formation in image-making and in the historical, political and economic conditions that determine the meaning of art and images. Formed within Western image culture, she examines the gazes it produces: who looks, who is looked at, what that looking produces, whose reality gets to count. She does so from a position within: as a woman, as an artist, as a mother. This position forms a methodological ground.

Her four active research projects form a field of inquiry, each constructing distinct research conditions for the same question: how does the gaze produce reality, and under what conditions can that mechanism be exposed?

Nelly is Looking for Closure
Nelly is Looking for Closure - A letter from Nelly — II don't know how much of me you can see from where you are. I have been here before, I think — in a different order, a different light. Sometimes close, sometimes further away. I am not always sure which parts you are looking at, or whether what you find adds up to something. I can't tell from here. There are things I keep returning to. The fabric. The way things rest against each other. A pattern that almost repeats. The same details, at different distances, in different combinations — as if the question changes each time, even when the answer doesn't arrive. I don't know what you make of them. I don't know if you make anything at all. Sometimes there is nothing. A pause. A heroic breath between one thing and the next. I notice you don't leave during those moments. You wait. I'm not sure what for. I think you are still trying. That's what I notice most — the trying. The way attention moves from one thing to the next, looking for the part that will make the rest make sense. Something keeps pulling you forward. I recognize it, even if I can't explain it. Even if I'm not sure it has a destination. You can keep looking. I'll be here. I always come back, in one form or another. Nelly
Alida has a Hobby
Alida has a Hobby - Alida has a Hobby is an ongoing artistic research project on the structural conditions under which certain categories of labor are made invisible, uncompensated and categorically illegitimate. Its material is the unpaid labor I perform as artist, parent and woman: domestic maintenance, childcare, cooking, beauty rituals, grant applications, administration, the constant work of being seen. The project runs on a dedicated Instagram account, @alidahasahobby Photographs are taken with a phone, in the middle of the labor, without staging. They become different types of reproductive works with histories in feminist, political and amateur practice. They are accessible, learnable outside institutions, and carry hobby connotations. Alongside this, images of the Instagram page, conversations with scammers and other research content are also treated as source material. Every work is priced at the exact cost of materials plus direct making time at the Dutch minimum wage, plus VAT. Everything else is given for free. Works are titled Anonymous 1, 2, 3 etc., and issued in endless editions. The bodies that appear are cropped, fragmented, unreadable.
Studies in Organization
Studies in Organization - Studies in Organization is an ongoing series of composite image works made from found photographic material of bodies, landscapes, and other archival imagery drawn from Western visual culture. Each work is produced through a single cut: one horizontal or vertical intervention that reconfigures the source material into a composition that almost holds together. The image approaches coherence without arriving. The viewer keeps looking for the part that will make the rest make sense. That drive, the automatic reach toward coherence, is what the work is interested in. The series examines how coherence is produced not only within images but through the systems that frame and display them. Organization is not neutral: it asserts authority, stabilizes interpretation, makes contingent arrangements look inevitable. The works make that visible by operating just inside the threshold of institutional display, and then departing from it. Each work is framed individually. Color, profile and depth are decided per piece; sometimes calibrated against the image, sometimes in deliberate tension with it.
Cache (temporary memory)
Cache (temporary memory) - Cache (temporary memory) is a collage installation that explores consciousness, perception, time, and remembering. The work was opened with an opening performance.
IN THE BELLY (2022)
IN THE BELLY (2022) - N THE BELLY is a video work that stages perception as a cyclical and embodied process. Through looping movement, shifting scale and layered sound, the work explores how interior states and external environments continuously reorganize one another. Rather than narrating a boundary between inside and outside, it holds both in tension, allowing them to fold into each other. The video operates through repetition and subtle disruption. Visual and sonic elements nearly align, then slip. The viewer is drawn into a rhythm that suggests coherence, yet resists full resolution. The body becomes both subject and site of perception: not as image alone, but as a field in which stabilization and disorientation occur simultaneously. IN THE BELLY does not depict birth or death directly; instead, it inhabits a space of ongoing circulation. Meaning does not progress toward an endpoint but loops, intensifies and returns. The work invites viewers to experience the effort of orientation itself; to sense how coherence forms, errors and reforms within the body.

Al-Tiba9 ISSUE21 Print Magazine

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We Are Dreamers

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Locatie: Ballon Rouge Gallery
In samenwerking met: Ballon Rouge

Codrico Factory - Rotterdam Art Week

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Locatie: Codrico Factory
In samenwerking met: Rotterdam Art Week

End of a Chapter

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Locatie: Ballon Rouge
https://www.ballonrouge.org/events

Rotterdam ART Wewek @ VLAK; 76x32x32_200x85x360

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Locatie: VLAK BUT SMALL
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIi1nejiDFT/?img_index=1

Art The Hague

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Locatie: Fokkerterminal Den Haag

CACHE (temporary memory); TalentWall 10

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Locatie: Pennings Foundation

Dive into our consciousness together with artist Alida van Gool, and investigate the role of perception in (re)creating our experiences. To what extent do images offer opportunities to capture our human spirit? What significance do images have in explaining mental processes? What role does time play in constructing memories, perception, and individuality?

On Saturday June 1, between 12:00 and 16:00, Alida will work at Pennings Foundation to install 'CACHE (Temporary Memory)': a collage i

https://www.penningsfoundation.com/en/exhibitions/talentwall-10---cache-

Taking the Long Way Home

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Locatie: The Social Hub Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: The Social Hub Rotterdam & CBK Rotterdam
https://www.thesocialhub.co/rotterdam/

Spotlight expositie Kunstuitleen Rotterdam

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Locatie: Kunstuitleen Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Kunstuitleen Rotterdam
https://kunstuitleenrotterdam.nl/spotlight-alida-van-gool/

Rotterdam Art Week @ Borgerstraat

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Locatie: Borgerstraat 24
In samenwerking met: Borgerstraat

Voor de negende keer tijdens de Rotterdam Art Week opent het atelierpand Borgerstraat 24 haar deuren voor publiek. Tijdens deze editie wordt in de gangen en de openbare ruimtes een selectie van werk getoond van kunstenaars die geen atelier hebben en bij SKAR op de atelierwachtlijst staan. Tevens zijn 15 kunstenaar uit (het netwerk van) het Huis van de Fotografie uitgenodigd om hun werk te tonen.

https://rotterdamartweek.com/program_item/borgerstraat-open-studios/

New Chapters

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Locatie: Huis van de Fotografie
In samenwerking met: Huis van de Fotografie

Eind november komt er een einde aan het tijdperk van HVDF aan de Westersingel. Er gaat worden gerenoveerd, wat betekent dat wij helaas het pand moeten verlaten. Onze focus ligt op de toekomst, de nieuwe weg die we als HVDF inslaan. Tegelijkertijd staan we nu nog meer dan eerst, stil bij dit karakteristieke pand op deze fantastische plek in het centrum van Rotterdam. Hier hebben we de afgelopen drie jaar mooie exposities en ontmoetingen mogen realiseren en dat vooral samen met jou.

https://huisvandefotografierotterdam.nl/agenda/

ART The Hague

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Locatie: Fokker Terminal Den Haag

DE KUNSTBEURS DIE HET INTERNATIONALE KARAKTER VAN DEN HAAG TOONT, RONDLEIDINGEN EN TENTOONSTELLINGEN ORGANISEERT, KUNSTLIEFHEBBERS EN HET BEDRIJFSLEVEN BETREKT BIJ HEDENDAAGSE KUNST.

https://artthehague.nl/

Sublieme Minimale Vormtaal

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Locatie: iCOON Hoek van Holland
In samenwerking met: iCOON Hoek van Holland

Sublieme vormtaal is het uitgangspunt voor een zoektocht van een maand naar de sublieme minimale vormtaal. Wat is minimaal, wat behelst die zoektocht en wat levert het op?
Geen tentoonstelling, maar eerder een spektakel van activiteiten rondom minimale vormtaal. Natuurlijk wordt er ook werk tentoongesteld. Soms een dag, weekend of langer. Er wordt werk op locatie gemaakt, installaties krijgen een plaats in de ruimte. Ze worden opgebouwd door de maker, soms samen met enthousiaste bezoekers.

https://www.icoonhvh.nl/vormtaal/

Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend

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Locatie: Huis van de Fotografie

Altijd al een kijkje achter de schermen willen nemen in het Huis van de Fotografie? Het HVDF Collectief opent haar deuren van het atelier en de doka op 16 en 17 september tijdens het Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend. Wees nieuwsgierig en stel al je vragen aan de makers. De nieuwste werken van Alida van Gool, Annelies Diertens, Julia Pelealu, Sabine van der Vooren en Vivian Ammerlaan zijn in de expositieruimtes te zien.

Openingstijden:
16 september 11.00 – 17.00
17 september 11.00 – 17.00

https://www.grootrotterdamsatelierweekend.nl/locaties/huis-van-de-fotografie/

ON REPETITION

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Locatie: Garage Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: MESH Print Club, Garage Rotterdam

28 July - 13 August 2023, Garage Rotterdam. We are excited to announce the upcoming screen printing exhibition, "On Repetition,". The exhibition will showcase the works of emerging artists from Mesh Print Club who explore the concept of repetition in their art. The exhibition will take place at Garage Rotterdam, a medium-sized exhibition centre for contemporary art in an old Volkswagen garage.

https://onrepetition.nl/

North Sea Jazz Festival / Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair

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Locatie: Ahoy
In samenwerking met: North Sea Jazz Festival

Op de begane grond van het festivalterrein van het North Sea Jazz Festival, is er een kunstbeurs met ruim veertien galeries uit Nederland en België en op het middenplein een beeldentuin en een opstelling van hedendaags design.

https://www.northseajazz.com/nl/2023/hudson-art-department/?_gl=1*17qvpts*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTI4NjY1Mzk0MC4xNjg3NzgzNDgz*_ga_R779CRXXYG*MTY4Nzc4MzQ4Mi4xLjAuMTY4Nzc4MzQ4Mi4wLjAuMA..

THE LAND BEHIND THE MIRROR

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Locatie: Korte Vijverberg 2
In samenwerking met: KV02 Gallery

The Land Behind The Mirror is a [lens-based] art collective formed by Alida van Gool, Katariina Kärki, Marleen Dalhuijsen, Rienk de Vries, Roald Wolters en San van Nieuwburg.

Although all members have their own distinct vision, they feel connected by the way they question reality, turn it upside down and shed new light on its appearance.

This exhibition is the first presentation of the collective.

http://thelandbehindthemirror.com/

BLACK SANDS (Rotterdam Art Week)

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Locatie: Huis van de Fotografie
In samenwerking met: Huis van de Fotografie

https://rotterdamartweek.com/program_item/black-sands-nl/

https://rotterdamartweek.com/program_item/black-sands-nl/

Haute Photografie Rotterdam 2023 (Rotterdam Art Week)

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Locatie: Keilepand
In samenwerking met: Haute Photografie
https://www.haute-photographie.com/rotterdam-2023
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