BLIND MAN’S BLUFF
24 February – 30 March 2024
Annet Gelink Gallery is proud to announce Blind Man's Bluff, a group exhibition on the theme of play. The exhibition features work by Ryan Gander, David Maljković, Antonis Pittas, Josse Pyl, Lara Schnitger, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, and, for the first time, Michelle Chang Qin.
Both art and play deal with creation and imagination, experimentation, participation, chance or strategy. It has a degree of unexpectedness, at times humour. Play and art are also about speculation, being able to imagine what is not (yet) there, creating worlds. Blind Man's Bluff shows works that touch on the theme in various ways: conscious or subconscious, politically charged, by chance or within a set of game rules.
Blind Man's Bluff is a kind of blindfolded playing tag, where the challenger has to rely on alternative senses to find the other person. In the context of this exhibition, the blindfolded game refers to the unseen and imaginary, introspection, the uncertainty of the future and the leap of faith, as well as the challenge of not knowing. From behind the cloth, the blindfolded person is forced to create his or her own imagination, thus visualising a new version of the world around him or her.