Dennis Adams

Date: 5 December 1995 - 9 March 1996

Inspired by the Department of Civil Services located in the Atrium of the City Hall, Adams reproduced a series of 10 windows in the exhibition space at Stroom. In the mirror against the back wall are images of 11 young immigrants who tell of their experiences in The Hague and of their native countries. They then remain silent for a long time. That silence has a double meaning for Adams: being reduced to silence and simultaneously silence as a means of resistance. In addition, he showed the installation ‘Recovered/ 10 on 10'. For the first time, he showed the complete edition of 10 books, a combination of his own photographs of residential area's in France, where many people of North African origin live, and photographs that the French photographer Marc Garanger took in 1960 of Algerian women who were forced by the French military authorities to remove the veils from their faces.