Raffaele Pola - Grok
Opening Sunday 9 November, 16:00 - 19:00 hrs
Until 14 December, Thu - Sun 14:00 - 18:00 hrs

Though its sound suggests a sudden, almost guttural reflex, to grok names a mode of apprehension that slips beyond the bounds of logic – an attunement shaped by intuition and empathy. Beneath the gaze of an unresponsive eye and the tilt of a waiting figure, something carries on in its own way, and the grokking continues.

Raffaele Pola’s work is dedicated to exploring the autonomous evolution, preservation, and decay of systems. Rooted in sculpture and installation, he works with dead-end materials, found objects, and various scales of dust to create tactile, precarious assemblages that suggest both growth and disintegration. For the exhibition at P/////AKT, he will present a of Emergence Threshold (2024), in combination with recent works. Pola graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2021 and is currently completing his Master degree in Sculpture at the HFBK Hamburg.

UP/////DATE: Boo 2 
Arto Van Hasselt, Huub Kooijman, Adriana Lasheras Mabanta, Paula Garcia Sans

Alongside Raffaele Pola's exhibition we are presenting a small reunion of the other artists involved in Boo 2; an artist-run project space which started in January 2022 in a vacant store at the Boven’t Y shopping centre. In November 2022 Boo 2 organized two shows in the former P/////AKTPOOL space at Zeeburgerpad. 

HOSTED AT PAKT FOUNDATION, ZEEBURGERPAD 53

The Hard Edge of the Labour of Time
Opening: Friday 31 October, 17:00 – 21:00 hrs
Until 7 December, Thu-Sun 14:00 – 17:00 hrs

This exhibition is about time, the impossibility of rest in an age in which tasks pile up endlessly. It’s about maintenance - time means you need to attend to things on a monthly/weekly/daily basis. How is this doubled, tripled, when you have towards other living beings or when you’re waiting for a visa that is always imminently expired, for a rent contract that’s always about to end. Where will we be in a years’ time, two? Security is about eliminating temporalities, finding permanence in a world based on obsoletion and subscription models that thrive on insecurity.

It’s always about stepping on a fine line - a hopscotch of possibilities. Andrea Knezović explores how tempo affects production in a newly commissioned kinetic sculpture that leaves pressured traces to gradually build up in intensity throughout the duration of the exhibition. This archive of temporality is surrounded by her signature spatial diagrams that provoke interior questions. Yeşim Akdeniz presents a series of fabric sculptures that contend with the performativity of choice and the symbols of identity construction in a world defined by mobility. Two voting booths are adorned with dramatic curtains recalling the stage for spectacle. Suitcases are a recurring element in Akdeniz’s work that refer to migration and portable property along with elements connecting bodily dimensions and mechanical labour. Read more