We Should Have a Conversation , Thomas Swinkels , 2018
Schipluidenlaan 12, 1062 HE Amsterdam
May 13 – August 18
Schipluidenlaan 12, Amsterdam
Admission exhibitions: 5 euro regular entrance, 3 euro students, free for under 18 and press.
For his new outdoor work commissioned by De Appel, Thomas Swinkels looks under the skin of the orderly modernist architecture of the Broedplaats Lely. With a thermal camera that generates images from infrared radiation, Swinkels photographed various areas of the architectural body such as the central heating room — the proverbial heart of the building, pumping heat to its concrete organs. The enlarged infrared photographs are mounted on lit plexiglass boards on the the former school building’s iconic 1960’s brutalist façade, transferring the heart of the edifice to its extremities.
Turning the building inside out, Swinkels offers a poetic image of the body of modernist architecture and foregrounds an infrastructural perspective on what lies beneath.