On 3 October 2018, Saudade curator Natalie McIlroy and Saudade artist Janne van Gilst hosted a free educational workshop at the Stadsarchief Rotterdam (Rotterdam City Archives) with the support of Louisa Balk, Education Advisor at the archive. The workshop, titled Creative Responses to Archival Material, was attended by 6 participants with backgrounds in documentary photography, graphic design […]
Saudade at Boekhandel Dominicanen
The Saudade exhibit is on the road! From August 1 – 31, 2018, visitors at Maastricht’s legendary Boekhandel Dominicanen can find Saudade amongst the store’s books and other wares. Saudade aims to explore how history can be made visible through a contemporary context. Ten artists each drew inspiration from individual collections held in our archive […]
Saudade at Twelve Twelve Gallery
The first Saudade exhibition was held April 11–15, 2018, at Twelve Twelve Gallery in The Hague. The exhibition opening was attended by seven of the project’s ten artists and more than 60 visitors. More than 200 people visited the gallery in total. One of the founders of the Expatriate Archive Centre, Judy Moody-Stuart, was […]
Visit the Saudade Exhibition
You are invited to the Saudade Exhibition this spring! The suitcase and its contents will be on display from April 11-15 at Twelve Twelve Gallery in The Hague.
Get Your Own Copy of the Saudade Book
The Saudade book is a companion to the Saudade project, and contains beautiful images of the art and archival pieces, conversations with the artists, and essays from artistic and historical perspectives, as well as the full story of the celebrated suitcase. The Saudade project celebrates the EAC’s 10th anniversary as an independent foundation, and 25 years since its earliest beginnings. […]
A Still and Fragile Moment-Kevin Andrew Morris
*Once the stills were selected and composed on A3 sheets using adobe illustrator, these sheets were then used to make up the screens for printing the decals, which once printed were applied to the surface of the highfired (1220 degrees celsius) slipcast camera forms and fired further to 840 degrees celsius to fix onto […]
Life on the Move-Kevin Andrew Morris
Working from the digitized 35mm film footage from the collection my project developed from my initial reactions. Initially my research conducted of spending time watching and re watching the films provided by the The Expatriate Archive Centre, taking screen shots/stills from the footage, compiling and arranging the images. Partly this was done as a way […]
The Saudade Kickstarter is Live!
Our Kickstarter campaign is over, but you can still donate to help fund the Saudade project! Transfers can be sent using the following information: Stichting Expatriate Subject Line: 10th Anniversary + your email address IBAN: NL71ABNA0404476090 BIC: ABNANL2A Anyone who donates more than €30 will receive a copy of the book. If your gallery, archive, or […]
Il Cavaliere Mascherato (The Masked Knight)
It is evening, and I write from the waiting room near Gate 4 of Amsterdam Schipol International Airport. In a few moments I will embark on my flight to Milan, Italy. This morning I visited the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague. There, I met face-to-face with Fred Van Den Hoek, Alfons Vermeulen’s great-grandson. Alfons […]
Missing Pieces – Natalie McIlroy
After my period of historical research, I began to sketch land formations/ large structures that can be seen from Google Earth on Pulau Kemaro Island today. These were oil tankers, a large biomass factory, barge boats, barge moorings and the two religious temples. Again, this pairing of the religious and the industrial seemed so […]