To Be Like Water

This group exhibition in TENT Rotterdam explores and enriches the meaning of code switching. Code switching was first used as a term in sociolinguistics to describe how people who are multilingual switch between languages in conversation. But code switching is also about how we adapt our way of speaking to a particular social group. In fact, it is about all the conscious and unconscious ways in which people project different cultural or linguistic identities depending on the situation. The exhibition revolves around a layered understanding of identity, with code switching as a manifestation of the multifaceted and fluid way in which identity functions within a social force field.

Participating artists: Jenny Brady, Robert Gabris, Ellen Gallagher, Jumana Manna, Jay Tan, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Amy Suo Wu (in collaboration with Sami Hammana, Karen Huang, Sarafina Paulina Bonita and Sandim Mendes), Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Búrca and Katarina Zdjelar.

On view through May 22, 2022

photography: Aad Hoogendoorn

Shapeshifty

Amy Suo Wu (is.m. Sami Hammana, Karen Huang, Sarafina Paulina Bonita, and Sandim Mendes)

2021
Shapeshifty

Amy Suo Wu (is.m. Sami Hammana, Karen Huang, Sarafina Paulina Bonita, and Sandim Mendes)

2021
Faz Que Vai

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Búrca

2015
Faz Que Vai

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Búrca

2015
Water Ecstati

Ellen Gallagher

2019
Massage Series

Evelyn Taocheng Wang

2015
Massage Series

Evelyn Taocheng Wang

2015
B is for Behind

Jay Tan

2012
B is for Behind

Jay Tan

2012
B is for Behind

Jay Tan

2012
B is for Behind

Jay Tan

2012
Soap Berries at Scholar's Rock

Jay Tan

2021
Receiver

Jenny Brady

2019
The Water Arm Series

Jumanna Manna

2019
The Water Arm Series

Jumanna Manna

2019
The Water Arm Series

Jumanna Manna

2019
The Water Arm Series

Jumanna Manna

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The Perfect Sound

Katarina Zdjelar

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