24.02.25, 17:00, Sanie Irsay, 24 Hour Swan Lake

On Monday February 24th Het Paviljoen’s Eye becomes water opens with Sanie Irsay’s 24 Hour Swan Lake.

Sanie Irsay’s video work will begin playing at 17:00 and continue for the duration of 24 hours, showing a slowed-down version of Bolshoy Theater’s 1984 rendition of the Swan Lake ballet. Marking three years since the war in Ukraine began and using the tool employed by the USSR in times of turmoil, Irsay signals to the slow emergencies through which we are living.

Sanie Irsay (b. 1996) lives and works between New York, US and Amsterdam, NL. Irsay’s practice draws from her heritage as an Uzbekistan-born Crimean Tatar, the indigenous people of Russian-occupied Crimea.

Join us on Monday 24th February 18:00 for the start of the intervention and on Thursday 27th February when the video will be activated with readings by Radio Svitlo, music, zine sale, drinks and more.

Eye becomes water

Drawing from the history of Het Paviljoen, which served as the waiting room of the historic Bijloke hospital for pregnant patients, Eye becomes water is an exhibition and public programme that explores waiting not as a passive or neutral act, but as one that engages multiple temporalities, bodily experiences, and power dynamics.

Curated by Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Yasemin Köker, Temitayo Olalekan and Jean Watt.