Private viewing and performance
Takako & Others (I Will Miss This World) I
A poetic exploration of life and death, Takako & Others (I Will Miss This World) I brings images to life through movement, color and material. Join artist Maria Kley for an intimate performance where personal and unknown photographs unfold in a tactile, cinematic experience.
16:00 - 16:30
Free
English
On the occasion of the finissage of A Public Affair, artist Maria Kley will activate Takako & Others (I Will Miss This World) I, 2019. This tactile, photographic film—featuring photos of strangers alongside deeply personal photos of her mother’s last days—will be manually played for an intimate audience. As a special addition, the accompanying video Takako & Others (I Will Miss This World) II, 2025 will make its debut, screened on a loop before and after the performance.
Performance will take place at 16:00 (approximately 20 minutes).
Looped screening from 14:00 to 18:00.
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Maria Kley’s regenerative practice derives from a deep interest in intimate narratives, materials and the passage of time. Her works include sculptures, installations, drawings, performances, prints and workshops.
Conceptual portraits form an important pillar in her work. Biographical stories of herself, acquaintances or people she meets by chance form the guideline. Maria Kley brings time, person and place together while addressing universal themes such as growth, mortality, conflict and love. She deliberately opens up her process to participation and external involvement to collectively explore social connection, intimacy and resilience. The resulting abstract works are both personal and universal, both conceptual and tactile.
Each work is a physical manifestation of existential questioning, a process that goes hand in hand with elaborate material research. Be it a stone, clay, used tampons, used paper cups or her late grandmother’s scarfs, Maria Kley is challenged by the historical and transformative qualities of materials and objects. With great attention, she takes care of them. Through an intensive process of collecting, observing, dissecting, washing, coloring, assembling, transforming and reducing, material and story become one.
Maria Kley (b.1981, Tokyo, JP) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied fashion design at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL). Her art practice was preceded by several years of working in the fashion industry. From 2018-2019 Kley was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.