Opening Taking Root Among the Stars
Join us for the opening of Taking Root Among the Stars! With colour-morphing cocktails, a feminist sci-fi book selection by San Serriffe, and a special opening ritual by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti. Through her sonic and performative work, Ibelisse will bring together the worlds present in this exhibition—from the depths of the ocean to the edges of space. After the opening at W139, the celebration continues at nachbar, where a special playlist has been curated for the exhibition at the bar area.
Taking Root Among the Stars, initiated by Müge Yilmaz and Anna Hoetjes, is an exhibition that features the work of artists and writers who use science fiction not only as a theme in their work, but also as a tool to propose different social realities, alternative futures, and communal relations to nature.
As a platform for exchange at the intersection of art, literature, ecology, science, and activism, this exhibition claims speculation and its feminist possibilities. Bringing together works that are platforms of exchange in and of themselves, from feminist, queer, Black diasporic, and decolonial practitioners, the exhibition holds space for processes of worldbuilding by initiating dialogue, reflection, and interaction with the audience to help us imagine a radically different future—one we look forward to, one we don’t fear.
With works by AiRich, Black Quantum Futurism, Maartje Folkeringa, Anna Hoetjes, Adriana Knouf, Brittany Nelson, Ada M. Patterson, Sondi, Müge Yilmaz and Fei Yining.
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is an Amsterdam-based multimedia artist who works as a vocalist, composer, performer, and healer. Born in Bolivia and raised in Brazil, she weaves her sonic and performative practices inspired by her latinx roots. Her work is deeply interwoven in post-colonial justice, the paradox and beauty between grief and celebration, Andean Cosmology as a source of reclamation, resistance and resilience. Embodiment embedded in sonic fabrics while speculating myths through word oracles. She is a neo-mestiza, a spiritual activist, a femme defender, and a Moon lover.
