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We are pleased to invite you all to the opening of Luck is Blind, an architectural intervention within DE HOOP, a building in flux! 🏗️ Luck is Blind is the exhibition of a monument and not an exhibition inside of a monument. 🗓️ OPENING NIGHT : Friday September 12th at 18:00 We’ll then be open on the 13th and 14th, 12:00 to 18:00. 📍Noordvestsingel 87, Schiedam 3119 DC We are happy to be able to celebrate this moment with friends and familiar faces, come join us! hoop.space Luck is Blind is a project realized by Ben Weir (@benweir.arch ) in collaboration with Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas (@for.opacity ) supported by Schiedam Viert 750 (@schiedamviert750 ) and CBK Rotterdam (@cbkrotterdam ) This project would have not been possible without the cooperation and generous hospitality of the Gemeente Schiedam, Remar Bouw, and 3K Ontwikkeling. Special thanks to T. Racks (@t.racksallround ) for screen printing our first set of merchandise. Thank you all for your support 🤲🏽 *DE HOOP is a product of dRamedia*

“Donald Judd’s Fetish” part of @jonald.dudd annual exhibit during #NYDesignWeek🚨 Open now at 152 Lexington Ave NYC 🚨 • • • Donald Judd’s Fetish 2019 powder coated steel 16” x 16” x 18” Inspired after reading Anne Chave’s critical writings about artists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and others within the minimalist movement. Chave describes the artists as a brute force physically seizing over the gallery space. They would often do so in a language of heavy industrialized materials while being aloof from the manufacturing process. The collection’s purpose is to expose masculinity by highlighting the rhetorics of power used by white male artists during the 1960s.

📸 DOCUMENTACIÓN: A Long Shot Without Relief: Everyone wants to be desired, no one wants to desire. Performance de Ines Borovac (@lochnesi ) Una escena larga y sin alivio: Todos quieren ser deseados, nadie quiere desear. Escenificada entre la sedación y el exceso, este performance explora la lucha de los cuerpos por expresar emociones, conflicto y deseo dentro de una sociedad altamente alienada de su corporalidad y optimizada hacia la producción de capital. […] Esta presión se alinea con normas algorítmicas y estéticas que favorecen superficies estáticas y controladas por encima de una corporalidad expresiva y desordenada. Esto no es un auto-cuidado neutral; es una disciplina y represión emocional culturalmente condicionada que borra el afecto del rostro y del cuerpo. Para contrastar la sedación de la expresión, el performance se inspira en la expresividad melodramática de las telenovelas. 🌐 Staged between sedation and excess, the performance explores a struggle of bodies to express emotions, conflict and desire in a highly disembodied and optimised society. […] This pressure aligns with algorithmic and aesthetic norms that favor static, controlled surfaces over expressive, messy embodiment. This is not neutral self-care; it is culturally conditioned emotional discipline that erases affect from the face and body. In order to contrast the sedation of expression, the performance utilises the melodramatic expression of telenovelas. Performers: Isabel Narezo Balzaretti (@isabelnarbalz ), Roberto Mosqueda (@mosquedaroberto ) and Ines Borovac (@lochnesi ) Sonido: Harry Castle (@c4stl3e ) Estilista y vestuario: Salma Carbajal (@salma.carbajal ) Foto: (@quiero_bosque ) Video: (@dacazar ) Producción: Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas (@for.opacity ) Curaduría: La Clínica Apoyo: Mondriaan Fonds (@mondriaanfonds )

Umbral - conjunción artística - Seis jóvenes artistas contemporáneos se presentan en la galería de @hotelazuldeoaxaca por dos días con obras de diferentes formatos. Instalaciones, pinturas, fotografías y cerámicas. Los esperamos de 4 a 8 pm el Jueves 22 y Viernes 23 de enero, 2026.

Had the luck to be sitting in front of @marymadlean with my film camera for their performance at @performissima in @centreculturelsuisse curated by @caterinazevola

Pictures of packing up my studio that soothe me 🧠💆🏽

Externally an aperture is cut into the plywood sheeting over the windows. A hint that the building is in motion. A circle to mirror the existing porthole window in the attic storey. From the bridge inside this new aperture allows a view back over the canal that once brought grain and other goods to and from the building. Collab @for.opacity At @dehoop.space

Luck is Blind: an intervention in the former distillery building ‘De Hoop.’ This monumental building awaits renovation, having faced decades of neglect. It has spent time as an asbestos factory and a wood workshop, amongst other things. It has been much altered as a result. The building is in a state of flux, and of this we took advantage; used the opportunity to open the building up. We stripped away everything of no heritage value: defunct cabling and pipework, poorly constructed apartment walls, removed all floorboards to inspect for rot. What was left was an empty shell. The intervention becomes a bridge with a dual function. An access platform for public viewing, plus a structural member pinning together the existing floor joists, now that the structural floorboards are (temporarily) gone. Collab with @for.opacity Location @dehoop.space Photography @rubendariokleimeer Produced for @schiedamviert750 With the support of @cbkrotterdam With thanks to Gemeente Schiedam, Remar Bouw, and 3K Ontwikkeling.

out now: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐈 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦. 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦. by Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou (Common Ground Practice) (eds.) 𝐀 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞. 25€ via setmargins.press and local bookstores Rooted‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ belief‬‭ that‬‭ domesticity‬‭ is‬‭ not‬‭ a‬‭ static‬‭ setting‬‭ for‬‭ everyday‬‭ life‬‭ but‬‭ a‬‭ living‬‭ and‬‭ evolving‬‭ experience,‬‭ the‬‭ book‬‭ expands‬‭ from‬‭ the‬‭ scope‬‭ of‬‭ the‬‭ architectural‬ lens.‬‭ By‬‭ reintroducing‬‭ home‬‭ as‬‭ something‬‭ felt,‬‭ remembered,‬‭ imagined,‬‭ and‬‭ continuously‬‭ made,‬‭ this‬‭ publication‬‭ tackles‬‭ the‬‭ issues‬‭ of‬‭ dwelling,‬‭ belonging‬‭ and‬‭ shared‬‭ living‬‭ with‬‭ architects,‬‭ interior‬‭ architects,‬‭ educators,‬‭ designers,‬‭ and‬‭ practitioners‬‭ whose‬‭ work‬‭ touches‬‭ on‬‭ care, intimacy, and everyday rituals.‬ ‭ Divided‬‭ into‬‭ two‬‭ correlated‬‭ parts‬‭-Reflections‬‭ and‬‭ Exercises‭-the‬‭ book‬‭ brings‬‭ together‬ twenty-one‬‭ contributes‬‭ including‬‭ essays,‬‭ conversations,‬‭ and‬‭ interactive‬‭ exercises.‬‭ graphic design by Elisa Piazzi authors: Noemi Biasetton, Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas, Cecilia Casabona, Panos Dragonas, Edit Collective, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Ines Glowania, Platon Issaias, Nicholas Korody, La-Di-Da, Kevin S.F. Lai, Rising Lai, Setareh Noorani, Ilaria Palmieri, Georgina Pantazopoulou, Sophia Pekowsky, Michele Rinaldi, Valentina Rizzi, Vida Rucli, Lara Schrijver, Susanna Tomassini, Feven Gebeyehu Zeru. Illustrations by Georgina Pantazopoulou Book photography by Annette Behrens #architecture #home @ilalapalma @zwrzin @zwrzin @ilalapalma @practice.commonground @eeee.ppppp @pdragonas @ladida_design_architecture @feviiiii @susanna.tomassini @r_o_b_i_d_a @vidarucli @noemi.biasetton @platon.issaias @valentinaxrizzi @inesglowania @pro.zaziliae @edit.cllctv @for.opacity @davidetommasoferrando @michele.rinaldi91 @kvn.shu.lai @nicholaskorody @sophocleez @unfolding_something

On the invitation of @nedkaar ’s and the collective’s prompt “essential interest to Dutch culture,” I reflected on my own pathway to residency in the Netherlands — not through an artist or cultural visa, but via a partner visa. My presence here is formally justified not by my work, but by my relationship. To translate this into form, I searched my studio for objects that existed in pairs: two ceramic sculptures, the two mats they were crafted after, two scrap pieces of wood, and two light tubes. I assembled these mirrored elements into a pair of lamps… or rather lovers, facing one another, made from shared fragments of material and memory. The work considers the quiet architectures of support —emotional, relational, and material— that often underpin creative lives but remain invisible to official definitions of “cultural contribution.” It is also a meditation on duality, co-dependence, and the intimacy embedded in migration stories that are often reduced to paperwork.

Thank you all for coming last week to the opening of Luck is Blind! It was a pleasure to share this moment, first of more to come during our renovation. We remained opened by appointment, please reach out if you wish to have a chat. [Process documentation will follow] 📷 @foto_jakecaleb and @ramecuen

Su enfoque del cuero integra lo utilitario con lo artístico. Esta dualidad se refleja en sus obras CONSTRUIR EL NIDO y TACHINASQUE. Estas esculturas táctiles expresan su fascinación con ciclos naturales, como la simbiosis entre termitas arbóreas en los nidos conocidos como Tachinasque. Estos nidos, que eran una vista común en su hogar costero, ahora informan su exploración artística de la coexistencia, la transformación y el abandono. En su trabajo, el cuero se convierte en un sitio de complejidad, un material que contiene memoria, reinvención y contradicción. Fragmento texto curatorial @pro.zaziliae Construir el nido Recorte de cuero tejido sobre ixtle 60 cm. x 60cm. x 160cm. 2025 Un diseño sin design hasta el 4 de Mayo en @laclinica.art @for.opacity 📸 @rafiki_sanchez