Yvonne Halfens, Nico Huijbregts, Gabi Rets, HarmJan Roeles

FOG

Many sounds no longer sound. Cash register ringing, for example, creaking wood in your parental home, wind in a forest that has been cleared. Sounds that only exist in your head. That evoke special memories or feelings. Musician and visual artist Nico Huijbregts collects these sounds. In an interview, people tell him about their own sound, and he keeps those stories. His library formed the starting point of MIST. Huijbregts searched in all directions for images, for associations.

Sounds that have disappeared only exist in an inner world. Four artists playfully bring pieces from that world to the surface. They explore the inner and outer world. They grope around together in FOG.

There is a lot of music in the exhibition, and language. From Yvonne Halfens's Tower of Babel, children's voices come day and night; sounds in fifty different languages, confusion of tongues as music. Halfens also shows the inner stirrings of nameless figures wriggling across the floor. At Huijbregst they stick out of their ears. Harmjan Roeles cuts his self-portrait into a chatterbox. Cherishes record covers by Nana Mouskouri. Makes a musical instrument from a head that gets hit. Gabi Rets prefers to keep private stories private. She hides a letter in a kind of human-sized LP record made of strips of waste paper. A girl seems to be hanging on to it, listening attentively or introverted. Nico Huijbregts reads stories about missing sound. And he holds consultation hours: visitors are welcome to talk about their missing sound. Fragments of that might end up in MIST.

Opening on Sunday, November 20, 3 p.m. with a musical performance by Nico Huijbregts and Harmjan Roeles, poems by Jan Hardeveld and projections on the overhead projector by Gabi Rets.

On November 13 & 19, Nico Huijbregts will hold consultation hours between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

in Ans Verdijk's living room. Listeners are also welcome.