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About: Neil Fortune's multifarious works embraces drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, poblice-performances, text-peaces and curatorial activities. He sets up environments to question conventions; re-thinking them by creating objects and producing situations. Inherent to his practice, the audience becomes part of the work, which may often creates an eruption within the frame of an exhibition context. Through his haptic sculptural work he generates moments that will allow you to slow down, to rethink your role and position towards his installations and the spaces they inhabit. Fortune environments create proposition that is not clearly defined. For within the formulation of these environments new possibilities arise. With Fortune current solo exhibition Distorted Reality in the Polar Room at W139, he creates a stage built-up from a number of objects and situation that engage us in an ambivalent relationship to their surroundings. At times they may feel uncertain as to their material quality or origin. Distorted Reality emphasizes the added value of evocative and physical experiences, engaging you in a dialogue with the works.....Read on
Sellected exhibition: Neil Fortune Dutch artist born in Guyana 1983 work and live in Amsterdam. Fortune works has been the subject of group exhibitions at MUHKA Antwerp; TENT Rotterdam; The Summershow at Gemeente Museum Den Haag; Galerie 23 the host of his first and second solo exhibitions in Amsterdam; C&H-Gallery Amsterdam; Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam; More recent his works has been nominated winners of 2017 Summershow, a group exhibition hosted by Nieuw Dakota and FrancisBoeskeProject in Amsterdam Noord. Fortune's recent solo exhibition: Distorted Reality was hosted by polar room at W139 Amsterdam.
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