OpZicht: Sarojini Lewis

The Waves that came from Ternate

20 December 2017 - 4 February 2018
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Open: Monday - Friday, 11-5 pm; Saturday - Sunday, 12-5 pm
Closed: 25 and 26 December 2017 and 1 January 2018

OpZicht is a presentation space in the lobby of Stroom Den Haag for newly registered artists from The Hague. The wall unit functions as a stand or platform where the artist can share his or her work, passion or interest with the audience. Each presentation runs for approximately 7 weeks.
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Sarojini Lewis lives and works in The Hague. She graduated from the St. Joost Academie in Breda (department of photography) in 2008 and continued her education at Camberwell College of Art (MA Book Arts, 2008-2009) and Edinburgh College of Art (MFA Fine Art photography, 2009-2011). She wrote the following text especially for her OpZicht presentation.

The Waves that came from Ternate

Ternate is an island in Indonesia
My grandmother's grandmother came from there
her name was

Abrahami Demelveda

I don't know much about this island
My grandmother told me that there where a lot of Portuguese people
When they came there and which year is unknown to me
The boats would go from the Netherlands to it's former colony in Indonesia
Before the Dutch the Portuguese already had their colonies
My great grandmother was born in 1900 in Ternate
She has died in 1993 when I was 9 years old
I remember
But I don't remember everything
My fascination with this island is starting to grow
I have been to Jakarta and the Island Java when I was 19 years old
It was my first journey to Asia without my parents
I visited the house of my grandmother in Jakarta
I remember it was an old house and other people were living there
I was allowed to take photographs
Not inside
Ever since I have been fascinated with the boat journeys from Indonesia to The Netherlands and the other way around
The stories from Uncle Ben from Texas, my grandmother's brother
The stories from Janine, my grandmother's friend, about the Indonesian family
The conversation about the past between Megumi and my grandmother

The stories of my grandmother

Several conversations nearby the sea

Nearby the waves that came from Ternate

Sarojini Lewis
December 2017

www.sarojinilewis.com

20 Dec '17 - 04 Feb '18
Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: gratis