- When: 24 until 26 July
- Time: 10.00 - 17.00 hrs
- For who: everyone
- Cost: Free with a valid museum ticket
Immerse yourself in the colourful world of Marlot Meyer’s art installation Pneuma, as a part of Pride Amsterdam.
Pneuma is an ancient Greek word meaning both ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’. It invites you to reflect on what it means to live in a world where our existence is inextricably linked to the great ecological forces that sustain us. Inspired by the rhythm of the tides, Marlot Meyer has created an art installation in which you, as a visitor, become part of the work. With colourful, strange creatures inspired by microalgae that Meyer found in the mud near the Wadden Sea, she invites you to experience the body not as something fixed or self-contained, but as an open, porous system interwoven with the water and the wind that move through it.
On Sunday 26 July, from 10.00 to 17.00, you can become part of Pneuma yourself. Put on one of the special vests and look for the corresponding installation. The installation will move to the rhythm of your breathing.
Pneuma moves to the rhythm of your breathing
Photo: Aad Hogendoorn
"Meyer invites the visitor to care for smaller beings. By embracing them, they register the visitor’s breath, which then resonates within the larger beings. In this way, Pneuma draws the visitor into the silent interplay between body and world, between breath and the tide. In doing so, the work reminds us that everything breathes and moves. Life unfolds in relation to others, to the earth, in a monophony and polyphony of pulses. Breathing is being together."
- Esther Darley
Pneuma is part of the museum’s Pride Amsterdam programme.