‘Unhomed’
✏️Featuring Alle Valt, Max Purdon, Mosi Yaro and Wenzhu Song
📍Centrale Hal, Loods6
📆21 August - 14 September 2025
📎Graphic Design by Eva Burema
🔨Art handled by Kieran Hinde, Jules Coumans, Bas Nieuwenhuijzen and Mats Edel
📸Documentation by Sophia Jiaqi Xu
Hereby a photographic glimpse into a special artistic intervention of the ‘Centrale hal’ in Loods6. ‘Unhomed’ marks the start of a yearly tradition at Loods6: a curated exhibition that brings together works from art students graduating from Dutch art academies. Each year the selection will follow a different thread, guided by curiosity, intrigue and urgency, forming a living series of exhibitions that explore what young artistic voices can reveal when placed in dialogue.
‘Unhomed’ gathers four newly graduated artists from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, each presenting an immersive installation that can be entered: a shack, a bedroom, a church, and a site-specific sound installation tailored towards the staircase of Loods6.
The title plays on both home and unheimlich, articulating atmospheres that exist in an ungraspable space between the known and the unfamiliar. These installations carry intimate narratives, yet remain charged with a quality of unease, a sensation that invites reflection as much as it resists certainty.
The works are the architectures they carry with them: vessels for memory, reflection, and sensibility. To step inside these rooms is to enter one’s mind, to cross a threshold into a private interior, with all its dissonances and intimacies.
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As we prepare to start the new year, we are looking back on the works from the recent graduation exhibition.
“Like Most Things, Like Me”
Max Purdon
I’m trying to be serious here,
I’m really trying to be earnest,
I’m attempting authenticity without irony because this work is sad;
well, it was. It comes from a sad place.
The sad place is an architectural and institutional residue of settler colonialism, like most things, like me, the boy: Land in the South African hills worked into obedience by some Christians in the hopes of realizing a factory where boys would be forged into a metal they might one day strike the world with, or something corny to that effect.
After five years on that land, folded into its communal violence and the wrath of the ways of dead men, the boy returned to be with a world that had left without him.
He looked for some time, and all he found was, all he finds is,
this theatre with form in folds, stable surfaces and nothing too soft. This theatre is the facade that governs his comfort and keeps him away from the camera, and that which returns to fail him.
Maybe it is an indulgence in the grief of his adolescence, a mechanism of driving the knife into the belly but letting it pop out because time has passed and he can look back on these memories and sigh,
“oh no,” and that is, for now, enough.
Image credits: Tasos Vlachos
Unhomed brengt vier recent afgestudeerden van de Gerrit Rietveld Academie samen, elk met een meeslepende en betreedbare installatie: een hut, een slaapkamer, een kerk en een geluidswerk in de trapzone van Loods6.
Een unieke expositie in onze centrale hallen met werken die intieme verhalen dragen, doordrongen van een zekere onrust. Die zowel tot reflectie uitnodigt als zekerheid ontwijkt. De kunstenaars verkennen nieuwe terreinen en bouwen architecturen van herinnering, perceptie en sensitiviteit. Wie binnenstapt, betreedt de innerlijke wereld van de kunstenaar, met al haar spanningen en intimiteit.
Met werk van Alle Valt, Max Purdon, Mosi Yaro, and Wenzhu Song
OPENING | Donderdag 21 augustus | 16:00
Tijdens SAIL:
21 t/m 24 augustus | Donderdag t/m zondag |10:00 - 20:00
27 augustus t/m 14 september | Donderdag t/m zondag | 12:00 - 18:00
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Unhomed brings together four recent graduates of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, each presenting an immersive, walk-in installation: a hut, a bedroom, a church, and a sound work in the stairwell of Loods6.
A unique exhibition in our central halls, featuring works that carry intimate stories, imbued with a certain unease—inviting reflection while avoiding certainty. The artists explore new terrains, building architectures of memory, perception, and sensitivity. Step inside, and you enter the artist’s inner world, with all its tensions and intimacy.
With works by Alle Valt, Max Purdon, Mosi Yaro, and Wenzhu Song During SAIL:
21 – 24 August | Thursday to Sunday | 10:00 – 20:00
27 August – 14 September | Thursday to Sunday | 12:00 – 18:00
Max Purdon
Max’s work Like Most Things, Like Me installs a reconstructed living space from his adolescence, assembled from the grandiosity of memory: gilded recollections and an institutional heritage steeped in questionable practices.
The installation poses the viewer as an audience to a staged work in process, rooted in the past and somehow simultaneously beyond the bounds of individual time.
Captions:
1-6: Process, Packing and Details
