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ONE FRAME AT A TIME

Two red-tinted photographs with abstract, dark shapes hang from a string, tied with clothespins. A blurry person stands in a red-lit room.
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when
February 28, 2026 - March 29, 2026
where
EXbunker

"One frame at a time"  An archive of portraits created over five years, emerging from a practice that resists the instantaneous. Each photograph requires extended exposure time, inviting subjects into a temporal space outside the rhythm of daily life.  In the stillness required by the camera, something shifts. Participants encounter their own breath, involuntary movements, the effort of holding presence. What begins as a technical constraint becomes an unexpected threshold, a pause where accelerated time momentarily suspends.

These images hold traces of that encounter: the micro-tremors of a body attempting stillness, the drift of attention, the strange intimacy of shared duration. They are documents not only of faces, but of time made visible through the body's resistance to complete control.
The exhibition "one frame at a time" gathers these moments across five years and ongoing, creating a collective portrait of individuals who stepped briefly into a different temporal register,  one measured not by efficiency or capture, but by the analog patience of light meeting emulsion.

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Adriënne Verburg

"De benen nemen" (to take to one's legs/to bolt)—why do we say it that way? Instead of just saying "I'm leaving"? At the same time, people are judged if they don't speak "correct" Dutch. We accept all sorts of crazy proverbs, yet a tiny grammatical error can sometimes be enough to dismiss someone.I am fascinated by how we communicate with one another. How we take it for granted. How words follow rules, how objects communicate with us, and how we, in turn, interpret them. And then there are those proverbs, which often describe things whose meaning is no longer literal at all. Do we truly understand each other, or is that not the case and are we just pretending? In my work, I look for the confusion within proverbs sometimes by depicting them literally, sometimes by changing something small about them.

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Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht