Delinking and Relinking

2021
Polyvocal, Accessible, Playful, and for All Senses – Amplifying Voices of Hidden Stories and Relations behind the Surface of Art.

Touch, feel, see, hear, and smell – extensive multi-sensory Collection Display exhibition at Van Abbemuseum. Experience art differently through all senses. Designed with a special care for accessibility, the description and navigation system deploys more than 130 braille labels, 25 performative design tokens, 30 touch & smell replicas, and 5 special polyvocal online tours – from queer, children-friendly, to decolonial perspectives.

  • Delinking and Relinking: a figure rests on a grey ring by a yellow column and pink map walls, a display for all senses
  • Delinking and Relinking: olive letters spell 'Relinking' above a map mural of hidden relations and a blue root panel
  • Delinking and Relinking: a grey ring curls by a yellow map box under olive letters 'Abbemuseum Collection' and 'Senses'
  • Delinking and Relinking: red contours swirl on peach walls, a painting on a plinth, a figure pauses to see and feel
  • Delinking and Relinking: glass panels ring an olive map carpet below a wall of drawn faces, a display for all senses
  • Delinking and Relinking: three portrait banners say 'Gold Coin' and 'Unite' over an olive map carpet, polyvocal voices
  • Delinking and Relinking: white contours and pastel rivers trace a round olive map of hidden stories, 'River of Tears'
  • Delinking and Relinking: two caped figures kneel on the olive map carpet under 'Unite', performative design tokens
  • Delinking and Relinking: a figure lifts clear braille labels printed with a face onto an olive wall, touch and see
  • Delinking and Relinking: a caped figure raises a pink cloud card to a painted city bridge, a performative design token
  • Delinking and Relinking: two figures, one in a pink and green cape, read an accessible label by a pink touch replica
  • Delinking and Relinking: a grey oculus rings a slatted silver bench, two Collection paintings on orange, for all senses
  • Delinking and Relinking: playful brown, purple and sand plinths lift paintings, a figure blurs by the Collection Display
  • Delinking and Relinking: olive wall reads 'All About Love', a playful lilac beam crowns a white corridor of hidden stories
  • Delinking and Relinking: inked scribbles climb a pillar, a lilac bridge floats above a dark stair, playful for all senses
  • Delinking and Relinking: playful performative design tokens lean on a wall, an olive leaf, a lilac oval saying 'Bind to me'
  • Delinking and Relinking: figures in printed capes kneel on a green contour carpet, one lifts a performative design token
  • Delinking and Relinking: figures in printed capes enter a brown arch, a carved wood figure looks on, playful for all senses
  • Delinking and Relinking: pink vitrines hold archive papers, a figure studies a painted back, hidden stories for all senses