DOOResidency

Unfortunately, the main positive outcome was the documentation (I took care and paid for it myself) and writing a solo exhibition in my CV. The rest was a very bad experience overall : absolutely no support, lack of communication, no organisation, and no respect of basic safety regulations (as an example : They requested me to unbuild my installation under 0 degrees at 10pm on a 5 meter ladder, after "realising" they were renting their space the morning after for a sextoys company, while the unbuilding was scheduled a few days after. it is, unfortunately, not a bad joke.) It was also not a residency as presented, but just the space being empty for me to install and show my work for 48 hours.

I made some long lasting friends! We each had so much space, it was in this old industrial warehouse and it was light and gorgeous and the location (Het Hembrugterrein) was soo beautiful and inspiring :) Only downside I can think of was it was quite cold in the space when I started in March and I needed a hot water bottle. Its a free residency, I was already living in Amsterdam so it didn’t cost me anything. Chafik and Aleksandra were very generous and helpful. I have very special memories from Dooresidency and would highly recommend it to anyone.

The residency is still in the beginning stages, so a lot of aspects can still be improved greatly. Such as paying the artist a fee or providing them a budget for materials.