The lecture will provide a tour through the Exactitudes oeuvre. From the most recent series made for Le Monde in Evry, a suburb of Paris in 2010, back to the Hardcore Gabber scene in Rotterdam in 1994. There will be a special focus on the London Exactitudes made in 2008, commissioned by the Ultra lounge at Selfridges in collaboration with the Photographers Gallery London.
Public Occasion Agency (POA)
POA aims to expand the field of knowledge at the AA through staging collaborative events.
Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek graduated from art school in Rotterdam respectively in 1986 and 1992, and have worked together since 1994 on Exactitudes. They worked in cities including Casablanca, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Bordeaux, New York, London and Paris. Their work has been published widely, including in Le Monde Magazine, Wound, la Repubblica, Zoo, BPM, The Independent Magazine, The Guardian, ID, L'Uomo Vogue, New York Magazine etc.
Exactitudes is currently on display as an outside exhibition on The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin. The real artworks can be seen at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden in Germany from 27 March.
The fourth edition of the book will be published in June (010 publishers, Rotterdam).
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