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Chino Chano
Open Archief
The practice of Pieter Paul Pothoven consists of installation, photography and different forms of writing. Historiography in relation to material culture pervades all projects and connects them in both theoretical and visceral ways. Through the alteration of historical objects – 17th century chests of the East Indian Shipping Company (VOC), for example, or his grandfather's prison spoon from World War II – he aims to establish new relationships with the past by questioning the use-value of these objects in
Pothoven's current project concerns the Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action (RARA). This anonymous activist collective fought in the 1980s and '90s against racism, oppression and exploitation – the ongoing legacy of Dutch imperialist history. RARA attacked, amongst others, Shell and Makro, companies with financial interests in South Africa during apartheid. He is collaborating with RARA to create an archive for the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, as well as texts and artworks that consi
Pieter Paul Pothoven received his BFA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and his MFA at Parsons The New School of Design, New York (US). He was a resident at, amongst others, Instituto Sacatar, Itaparica (BR), Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (US) and the Jan van Eyck, Maastricht (NL). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: The Other Kabul , Kunstmuseum Thun (CH); The Weight of a Stone , blank projects, Cape Town (SA); The Body Keeps the Score , Kunstenlab, Deventer (NL); TK15223 , Dürst
Brutalist Websites
Chino Chano
Open Archief