THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT - PT II
GROUP SHOW BY
THE CONSTANT NOW AND
PLEASE ADD COLOR
FUGGERSTRAAT 26, ANTWERP
JAN 12-30
THURS - SUN
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT PT. II
Group show by THE CONSTANT NOW and Please Add Color
with Amber Dewaele, Benjamin Mengistu Navet, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust and Pris Roos
Curators: Magali Elali and Kevin Kotahunyi
Jan 12-30
Fuggerstraat 26, Antwerp
Open Thurs-Sun | 2-6 pm
Opening night Wed, Jan 12 | 6-9pm with performance by Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
The group show THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT tackles the stereotypes of today's youth. By focusing on heritage, sexuality, self-empowerment, and childhood memories, five young artists shed light on this complicated yet universal matter. The expo is a collaboration between THE CONSTANT NOW, and Please Add Color.
Curators: Kevin Kotahunyi and Magali Elali.
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT - PT2 takes place in November 2021.
DARIUS
DOLATYARI-DOLATDOUST
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust (°1994, Chambéry, France) is an artist, performer and designer with French, Iranian, Polish and German roots. He has developed a visual and conceptual language throughout various studies and built research on the body in movement. To put on his costumes and artwork is to dialogue with heritage and history, big or small; it is to dance in the past. In his performances, costumes dissolve, change and modify the dancer's body. And while a new reality exists, a fictional body emerges. He creates to speak of rituals of life and death and to re-understand borders: his identity, his territory.
PRIS ROOS
Pris Roos (°1984, Rhenen, The Netherlands) is an artist, curator, researcher and storyteller. As a child, she grew up in the toko of her family who emigrated from Indonesia. The toko (Indonesian for shop) symbolises a space of togetherness, colours, smells, food, stories, and a mixture of people from different backgrounds. It inspires her art, from painting, spoken word, video, and performance to installation. By focusing on observation and carefully listening to the people she meets, she reflects on identity, migration,
and memory.
BENJAMIN MENGISTU NAVET
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust (°1994, Chambéry, France) is an artist, performer and designer with French, Iranian, Polish and German roots. He has developed a visual and conceptual language throughout various studies and built research on the body in movement. To put on his costumes and artwork is to dialogue with heritage and history, big or small; it is to dance in the past. In his performances, costumes dissolve, change and modify the dancer's body. And while a new reality exists, a fictional body emerges. He creates to speak of rituals of life and death and to re-understand borders: his identity, his territory.