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The exhibition Hollandaise: a journey into an iconic fabric took place at SMBA.[1] from 30 November 2012 to 6 January 2013 in the context of Project 1975 of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The exhibition travelled on to Raw Material Company,[2] Dakar (Senegal), where it was on view from 10 April – 1 June 2013.
The curator for this exhibition was Koyo Kouoh. Participating artists in this exhibition were Godfried Donkor, Abdoulaye Konaté, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem de Rooij, Billie Zangewa.[3]
For this exhibition curator Koyo Kouoh commissioned five artists, all working in the medium of textile, in Europe and Africa to make new works on the subject of “Hollandaise” or “Dutch wax”, the colourful wax print fabrics that are most often regarded as typically African.[4] [5] The fabric gets its name “Hollandaise” from the country where it is produced and exported from: Holland.[6] [7]This fabric can be seen as an heir of the Indonesian Batik. During Netherlands’ colonialisation over Indonesia the Dutch imitated this hand-made fabric (batik) using industrial processes. They found a market for these industrialized versions of the Indonesian batik in Africa.[8] The type of fabric has since become to play a very important role in African everyday life and culture. Up until this day, despite the fact that several companies in Africa have sprung up producing similar fabrics, the fabric gets exported from Holland to Africa.[9] This exhibition was the last one held in the context of Project 1975. In the context of this exhibition a catalogue, edited by Koyo Kouoh, as well as an SMBA Newsletter was published.
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- ^ SMBA, The Netherlands.
- ^ Raw Material Company.
- ^ http://www.rawmaterialcompany.org/detail_full.php?categorie_id=11&article_id=80&lang=en. Last accessed 13 July 2015.
- ^ Kouoh, Koyo.'A journey into an iconoc fabric'. SMBA Newsletter No. 130, 2012
- ^ http://www.rawmaterialcompany.org/detail_full.php?categorie_id=11&article_id=80&lang=en. Last accessed 13 July 2015.
- ^ Bouwhuis, Jelle; Kerstin Winking.'Hollandaise'.SMBA Newsletter No. 130, 2012
- ^ http://www.rawmaterialcompany.org/detail_full.php?categorie_id=11&article_id=80&lang=en. Last accessed 13 July 2015.
- ^ Kouoh, Koyo.'A journey into an iconoc fabric'. SMBA Newsletter No. 130, 2012.
- ^ Kouoh, Koyo.'A journey into an iconoc fabric'. SMBA Newsletter No. 130, 2012.