Fenneke Voorsluis:
‘The Poetry of the Casual Encounter’
September 14 – October 25, 2019 at Café Bern
Fenneke Voorsluis (Amsterdam, 1981):
– “I investigate the emotional half-life of my parental home: Kalkmarkt 8. A house full of memories, a house in motion, a house like stagnant water. I bend over my legacy, record it, cross over and rewrite my own history. Looking for a new simplicity. Piece by piece I break down and build up until a new order is created that becomes fuel for the future.”
From September 14 until October 25, 2019 Fenneke Voorsluis shows a selection of her work at Café Bern.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a first impression of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Dear visitors to Café Bern
I invite you to share a piece of “The Poetry of the Casual Encounter” that you may experience here yourself. Perhaps you are now experiencing an unforgettable evening, a nice intimate conversation or you have had a special insight into the life of a stranger.
Share a piece of thought, conversation or an idea. Everything is allowed. Write it on a notepad. Four rules are sufficient. I collect them and add them to my own history. I will work with integrity and care. I won’t mention names or background. Just a piece of poetry from a casual encounter, here in Café Bern.
My name is Fenneke Voorsluis. I am an artist, curator and cultural entrepreneur at De Huiskamer, Kalkmarkt 8, Amsterdam. It is my parental home, where I was born and bred and where my parents ran a doctor’s practice.
In January 2019 my father passed away quite unexpectedly. He was a very socially involved kind of person, both professionally and in his private life. He turned Kalkmarkt 8 into a refuge where people of various backgrounds and reference frameworks could meet. It was an exciting place to grow up, a place where all sorts of initiatives, people and ideas could thrive. I have always admired and cherished my parents’ open-mindedness.