Positions: Afterlives x Sabine Groenewegen

• Date: 16 May
• label.tijd 18:00 - 22:00
• Location: Stroom Den Haag

Stroom The Hague continues its Positions; Afterlives series with Sabine Groenewegen. She has been invited as a guest speaker in this special year of remembrance to reflect on the impact of the colonial past on the present. We look forward on the 16th to a diverse program featuring the audiovisual installation Removed, a screening of her work that is part of the project “Missing Scenes on Rubber and Erasure,” and a conversation with writer and researcher Reggie Baay.

Sabine Groenewegen is an artist and filmmaker who uses moving images to explore and reinterpret historical narratives. Her debut film Odyssey has screened at international film festivals and won several awards. For her project Missing Scenes: on Rubber and Erasure, Groenewegen analyzes colonial propaganda films, the narratives that were constructed, and the realities they concealed. Recently, her short film Remanence premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Groenewegen examines the knock-on effects of Indonesia's recent slavery past, the plantation economy along the intersecting lines of women and their visibility in systems, archives, films and family histories. How can the tense relationship with “mixed” marriages be explained in policy, and how do these interracial relationships still work through in Dutch families, cinema and collective memory? These and other research questions are central to the artist's work, and on Thursday she will discuss them with writer and researcher Reggie Baay.

The installation Removed will be on view at Stroom until June 2.

Stroom Den Haag is a center for visual arts with a wide range of activities. The program is based on the conviction that art offers new insights and makes an important contribution to the discussion about the city, culture and society.

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