Exhibition: Jan Hoek & Jip Jansen & Charity Charly
PUNK CONNECTIONS
While shooting photographs, Jip Jansen tries to capture a feeling. To portray an emotion. The images are timeless. Almost all the photos are shot in the Slachthuis, the most beautiful café in Haarlem. Here Jip has always had the space to practice photography. This series was developed and printed in their own darkroom.
Jan Hoek is an artist and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image. In the universe of Hoek the ‘normal’ people are the strangers and the outsiders are the funky rulers of this planet.
Charity Charly is a self-taught filmmaker and artist who focuses on making the invisible layers in society visible. She is currently working on her debut as a director for her first film ‘Tra Fasi’. A unique documentary about the hidden punk/rock culture in Suriname. Her work is characterized by a deep interest in the stories and cultures that are often overlooked.
This exhibition is part of ‘PUNK CONNECTIONS: music, art & activism through DIY ideology’, a program curated by our community curator Bibi Bannink in collaboration with dB’s. Because of the eagerness in broadening the intersectionality of the punk scene and a more interdisciplinary approach, they invite artists from various social/cultural backgrounds, who show their art and their voice. Because the punk scene originated from a feeling of oppression, it is important to show the position of these identities and their differences within this scene.