The Others Art Fair

Rianne Groen x Billytown
For The Others, Rianne Groen (Rotterdam) and Billytown (The Hague) have combined two artists of each gallery in a collaborative presentation. Both Kim David Bots and Wouter van der Laan work multidisciplinary and with site specific installations. The collaboration was initiated especially for the fair and asked them to collaborate and with that perceive their own artistic practice in a different light. Both artists collected a personal archive, which often functions as source material for their work, providing a foundation for their work in a personal narrative. Both artists have quite recently started to explore working in more site specific installations. Where Van der Laan emphasizes elimination in the process, wether that is painting, digitally or otherwise, Bots chooses to research the personal in the narrative of daily life (text by Rianne Groen).

The ‘sala d’attesa’ was part of the ‘Specific’ section of the art fair. Referring to the more site specific rooms of the former hospital. All participants of this section reacted in one way or another to the former use of these rooms.

Here’s a small impression of the other exhibitors at The Others, but I did not get the chance to photograph all the presentations I wanted, like 3:e Våningen/3:rd Floor from Gothenburg, Sweden or CLOVIS XV & SUPERDEALS from Brussels.