Indebt Studio

Looking back on 2012 NEVER HAPPENED (2023)

The year 2012 was marked by a heavily mediated event: the anticipated apocalypse. The exhibition draws on this cultural moment of collective anticipation, referencing Jean Baudrillard’s ‘The Gulf War Did Not Take Place’ (1991) as well as the Mayan apocalypse said to have taken place on December 21, 2012. Baudrillard’s concept of ‘hyperreality’, the blurring of lines between the real and the simulated, serves as the lens through which we question how we experience events in a media-saturated world.

Through the lens of these millennial artists, the exhibition reflects on this deeply pessimistic vision of the future: how do we navigate a world where reality is so deeply intertwined with its fictional representations?

Works highlighted in this post:
Slide 1 : Exhibition overview
Slide 2: Baratto & Mouravas, Trajan / Iterations, Laser cut MDF, 2017
Slide 3: William Grob, “Where are we, who are you, does it really matter”, Oil on linen, 2021
Slide 4: Exhibition overview
Slide 5: William Grob, The Qualifier of Hope, Oil on linen, 2021
Slide 6: Exhibition overview
Slide 7: Baratto & Mouravas , One Fathom, Two Phantoms, Self shot on 16mm, 2023
Slide 8: Tasio Bidegain, And the Eye Caught On Fire, Graphite on paper, 2021
Slide 9: William Grob, Delaying Time, Oil on linen, 2021
Slide 10: Baratto & Mouravas, L’ancien Regime, Ceramic, 2023

Looking back on THIS TOO SHALL PASS (2022)

‘This Too Shall Pass’ is a deeply personal project developed by artist , our current in-house gardener at Govert Flinckstraat. The series reflects a journey of self-discovery, pursuit of peace and acceptance, and the quiet dialogue between human and landscape.

Kooyman (1992, NL) visually explores our relationship with nature through themes of temporality and impermanence. For this installation, his photographic series was expanded into a physical environment: moss, stone and over 3000kg of Ardennes Grey form a carefully composed space filled with light and stillness.

The photographs taking the French Alps document the slow, intuitive process of painting monumental boulders with natural pigments. Each session - lasting up to ten hours and spread across different seasons - marked a specific period in Kooyman’s personal life. As the colors fade, so do the moments they represent. The rocks return to their natural state, and so do we.

All photographs are 47 x 58 cm incl. frame, 2021.