Here (not anywhere) initiated from Leonie Persyn’s invitation to unfold Rita Hoofwijk’s artistic practice and start a dialogue towards the future. The resulting collaboration is an encounter of two different perspectives from where essences and resonances reveal.

 

Here (not anywhere) is a search towards an artistic recipe, averse to ingredients, that allows us to question what exactly makes Hoofwijk’s practice her own. It is a field guide that is inspired by the idea of a cookbook. It focuses on the experience of creating, starting from the place where one cooks to the digestion of the meal. 

 

Here (not anywhere) is oriented towards recurring principles at the basis of Hoofwijk’s practice. It reveals how the works resulting from her practice originated in a specific ‘here’ that wasn’t anywhere and neither could be everywhere.

 

Here (not anywhere) questions how little one needs to do in order to create something. It combines the perspectives of the one looking and the one listening. It shows the richness and intimacy embedded in the encounter between a place, an artist and an audience member. 

 

Here (not anywhere) is an invitation by Leonie Persyn and Rita Hoofwijk to be engulfed by each other’s horizon, to sit down and stay a while.