Route du Nord
7-9 June 2013

Multiples – the eleventh edition of Rotterdam's lively cultural route

On 7, 8 and 9 June 2013 Rotterdam Noord celebrates again 3 days full of art, music and literature. The eleventh edition of Route du Nord will take place this year in a brand new location, the so-called Zomerhofkwartier
at the former station Hofplein.
Re-known artists but also new promising talent will present their most contemporary creations corresponding to the festival theme Multiples.

Multiples
The Rotterdam photographer, film and art director Lenny Oosterwijk (1969) and the Greek artist Kiki Petratou (1971) are the guest curators for Route du Nord 2013. For the cultural route they are putting together a central exhibition where artists react creatively in the theme of this year's festival Multiples. The term often refers to a series of identical prints or objects, but the exhibition does not restrict the idea of multiples as a form of art production. Multiples can also refer to approaches such as mosaic, multiform, heterogeneous, multitudinous, collective and polymorphous. With the theme the curators intent to focus on a constructive dialogue between the artists, their practice and their works, which will reflect the current state of affairs, the practitioners' preoccupations and the variety of expressive media.

Under the theme 'Multiples' Kiki Petratou will be presenting: Efrat Zehavi's 'Passportrraits', a combination of plasticine figurines and photographs of sitters with whom Zehavi develops a special relationship as she invites them not only to pose for her but also to be part of a thematic conversation; Heleen Schröder's 'Face Book', in which we see herb fascination about the endless variety of faces, Fotini Gouseti's 'Tam' in which she focuses on genitalia in an attempt to 'tame' the fear and preconceptions related to the social standards, and Adonis Migkos' 'The Adonians', in which he maps the creation of a new experience of the self, inventing alternative ways of escape.

7 – 9 June 2013
Zomerhofkwartier, Hofpleinstation, Luchtsingel and Schieblock
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