24.04.25 – 11.05.25, Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar, Reinier Vrancken, that slab of outlaw time
From Thursday 24th April to Sunday 11th May, Het Paviljoen presents that slab of outlaw time, a group exhibition with works by Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar and Reinier Vrancken.
When endured, waiting is akin to a lethargic state, a prolonged watch where everything seems to stand still. Inwardly, thoughts are racing, reality is being revised. After the hospital was evacuated from the Bijloke site in 1983, Het Paviljoen was used as a storage area. For many years, it lay dormant, out of sight and out of mind before being transformed in 2006 into an exhibition space, a vitrine for all to see, a glass stage. The works of Zeynep Kayan, Amel Omar, and Reinier Vrancken speak to the tension and boundaries between exterior and interior, the outer shell and inner fullness. They disrupt the gestures of vision and the rhythm of one’s perception, drawing attention to blind spots, to the periphery.
Zeynep Kayan’s (b. 1986, TR) practice focuses on exploring the repetitive structural setup of the variations she creates by using video, photography, sound and performance. Through experimentation and chance, the artist articulates a personal vocabulary of the “self”, or of the “human condition”, but rather seems to escape categorization.
Amel Omar (b. 1995, NL) is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on (site-specific) installation and video. Her practice is grounded in an object-oriented approach, exploring the displacement of objects and spaces and the intrigue of their transitional, liminal states. Through spatial and material interventions, she reimagines conventional functions, inviting new readings of the familiar.
Reinier Vrancken (b. 1992, NL) moves in and out of material and immaterial worlds through oblique connections and poetic leaps. His installations, interventions, objects, and books lyrically test the shifting contours of physical and conceptual bodies—their diffusion and plurality being central to his artistic practice—and become entry points to articulate their underlying relationships.
