WE ARE OPEN FOR INSTALLATION

From 15 May to 9 November, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is ceasing to operate as an art gallery, in an attempt to unsettle the dictatorial art system and to reconnect with the fundamental process of art making. In its place, further to the gallery's invitation to Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, the space has been handed over to the artists for the duration of five months as a living and breathing cellular domain. Audiences are welcome to visit We Are Open For Installation. Updates and invitations will be shared, or not, according to the natural energies unfolding in this collective venue.

In Katrina Kufer’s recent review published in Alserkal Folios, she aptly explains, “We Are Open for Installation is a think-tank in the place of a white cube, where everyone is invited to participate in the unlisted series of activities that accompany the ‘exhibition’. But there is no spectacle to be observed – it is full immersion in ideas, emotions, research, and radical gestures, more akin to a physical expression of a cognitive network. In the words of the trio at work, ‘When people walk in a white cube space, they come with assumptions of a halo of fetishism for the art and the artists, however, when you encounter a pupating landscape here, it makes visitors more intimately connected with the works.”¹