Positions: Afterlives X Sabine Groenewegen
Thursday 16 May 2024
Program: 18:00 - 20:00 hrs
Doors open at 17:45 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entry: free
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After the successful edition with Ruben La Cruz and Karolien Helweg, we continue the series Positions: Afterlives with Sabine Groenewegen. She has been invited as a guest speaker in this special year of remembrance to reflect on the impact of the colonial past on the present. We look forward on the 16th to a diverse program featuring the audiovisual installation Removed, a screening of her work that is part of the 'Missing Scenes on Rubber and Erasure' project , and a conversation with writer and researcher Reggie Baay.
Sabine Groenewegen is an artist and filmmaker who uses moving images to explore and reinterpret historical narratives. In 2018, she won the Doc Alliance Award for her debut film Odyssey, which tells a complex story about nationalistic, colonial and racist structures in society. For her project Missing Scenes: on Rubber and Erasure, Groenewegen analyzes colonial propaganda films, the narratives that were constructed, and the realities that remained concealed with them. Recently, her short film Remanence premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Groenewegen examines the knock-on effects of Indonesia's recent slavery past, the plantation economy along the intersecting lines of women and their visibility in systems, archives, films and family histories. How can the tense relationship with 'mixed' marriages be explained in policy, and how do these interracial relationships still work through in Dutch families, cinema and collective memory? These and other research questions are central to the artist' work, and on Thursday she will discuss them with writer and researcher Reggie Baay.
The installation Removed will be on view at Stroom until the 2nd of June.
- Thursday 16 May '24 18:00 hrs
- Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
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