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Eksters Ogen

eksters ogen
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when
August 2, 2025 - August 31, 2025
where
EXbunker

An interactive installation about how colonisation has shaped itself economically in modern
times.

We as Dutch people have colonised many different countries in our past for our own
economic growth. Fortunately, those times are over. We have confessed our guilt, said
sorry, changed signs on statues and are teaching our children what we did in our past. All so
that we can sleep soundly.

Yet many people do not know that colonisation still occurs in this day and age and has taken
on a new form in a cunning way. Large companies still have power over the colonised
countries and we as colonisers play a major role in this.

Just like in the past, we still steal everything that glitters or shines, just like magpies
(eksters), whilst the blisters (eksterogen) of the exploited only grow bigger by the day.

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Current exhibition

This exhibition is closed. This is showing at EXbunker now:

Een close-up van blauw-witte geweven stof met een abstract, onregelmatig patroon van lijnen en golven.
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May 2

May 31

Dweilen met de Kraan Open

Isabela Verhagen

Since the heavy rainfalls flooded the streets of Valencia in 2024, I could not stop thinking about the images of the residents sweeping the muddy streets. Amid the enormous amounts of mud and water, the act of sweeping seemed futile. These pictures conveyed a clear message: people are trying to manage the damaging consequences of climate change. Starting from this image, my project depicts men sweeping the floor while standing in the water, ankle deep. In front of the sweepers, on the floor, is a house and a car swept away by the floods. The tapestries are accompanied by a ceramic fuel nozzle with a knitted oil spill attached, symbolising the fossil fuel companies that accelerate climate change. The installation is created to show the stark contrast between individuals fighting the consequences of climate change, while elsewhere, the oil tap is still running. The title refers to a Dutch saying, literally translated as ‘mopping the floor with the faucet open.

where

Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht