#LOVETHESHITOUTOFYOURSELF
DUO EXHIBITION OF PETRA VAN NOORT AND NIELS POST
You are hereby cordially invited to the opening of #Lovetheshitoutofyourself, a duo exhibition of Petra van Noort and Niels Post in our NEW gallery on Saturday May 16 from 12 – 5 PM
Due to Covid-19 we will be working with time slots, feel free to put your name(s) (4 people max.) in with preferred time slot.
On July 11 we will have the finissage for this exhibition.
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Abundance, desire and inability as displayed on the internet are an important source in the work of both Petra van Noort and Niels Post. Both artists use extremely labor-intensive ways of working to convert the online scrolling-culture into drawings and sculptures.
Petra van Noort draws portraits of Instagirls. Women who post thousands of photos of themselves on Instagram in the hope of a career as an influencer but only have few followers. Van Noort follows them and based on posted selfies and visual elements from their Instagram feed, she builds up her large collage-like drawings.
Niels Post saws the textual waste from his spam filter into wooden wall sculptures. From long sentences that fit into a space to a new series of works in which the readability of the text is less important.
Especially for the exhibition at NL = US and for the first time, Van Noort and Post have made five works in which Van Noort’s painting work comes together with Post’s hand-sawn spam texts