"The meaning of transparency is, on its face, clear—it is, after all, a synonym for clarity. And yet, the term has been associated with a wealth of different concepts: The call for transparency in governance is presumed to empower those that are governed. But transparency turns adversarial when the state begins surveilling its citizens. Transparency can function as an element of modernist architecture, for example, when a glass facade enables light to travel fluidly between inside and outside. Or it operates as a trope of modernity itself, symbolising the ideals of openness and visibility, equality and freedom." Curator and former DAI-tutor Ruth Noack collegially teams up with her former student Isabelle Sully (DAI, 2017), currently the director of A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam, which presents works by Pauline Curnier Jardin and Feel Good Cooperative, Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Ilke Gers, Willem Oorebeek. "Takes on Transparency" does not aim to fully explain or define the concept of transparency. The exhibition grew from Ruth’s tried and tested method of thinking through issues with the help of art in an open-ended process of research. It is the materialisation of this process in one instance of exhibition-making and it invites viewers to join in the practice of knowledge production that comes from looking at art. Till August 30, 2026 at A Tale of A Tub