RUBIA

RUBIA 

Rubia is the plant that gives red and pink through its highly pigmented roots. It sets the ground for an exhibition where we explore the feminine as force. Pink, long underestimated, is present here, moving between roots and becoming. 

As artists, we met during a previous exhibition and kept circling back to the same thing. This colour, and everything it carries. RUBIA grew from that. A shared urge to take it seriously, to work through it, in four different ways. 

Colina van Bemmel works from a beyond-human perspective, where connection to larger rhythms of life unfolds through symbolism and material transformation. Cycles, intuition, and interconnectedness shape the work from within. 

Lena Vigeveno, coming from a background in costume making, keeps returning to red. Through textiles, she explores the tension between intensity and softness. 

Sophia de Vliet paints with sharp colour and contrast, creating a visual awareness that both alienates from reality, and that echoes signals from the natural world. Her work starts from a female perspective, where femininity holds strength, pride, and transformation. 

Ragheni Ghogli is an abstract painter. She explores the interplay of color, light and acrylic techniques. Her work is about awareness with themes such as culture, sustainability and femininity. 

This exhibition is about taking up space. About not shrinking or adapting. About what it means to be a woman and an artist, and letting that be visible, fully.



Humanity at last

je pense que l'art peut changer la vie. en regardant une oeuvre on peut etre pris dedans et évoluer, se trouver, s'améliorer. je fais des taches et je vois un bout de visage, dans ma tête je vois le reste du corps, c'est très primitif, de l'enfance, de l'animal, et donc en commun, entre nous. 

J’ai commencé à dessiner avec mon père sur son lit de mort. Je n’avais pas d’appareil photo à l’époque. Donc j’ai été confronté au crayon, à la feuille blanche. Au travail long pour essayer d’arriver à quelque chose. Et ensuite à la non reconnaissance de mes efforts par ma famille. 

Je ne parle plus à ma mère, ni à ma famille colons en Israël. Je me suis construit par une autre pensée où j’étais libre : l’art. Je suis en recherche tous les jours, toutes les nuits . La « sublimation la plus fine » Cynthia FLEURY, (philosophe) par l’art, par la vie… L’art, la vie permet de trouver qui on est. Julia KRISTEVA (philosophe) : “tout est possiblement art, c'est-à-dire la multiplicité des sublimations possibles…” 

En mettant ensemble des matières qui ne se mélangent pas, je cherche à faire surgir un petit enfant, qui ose respirer, qui ose tout, vivre avec des bouts d'abord éparpillés. D’amour et de haine dans la même image souvent. Et en s’ouvrant à tout du monde, çà mène à la la citation d’EMPHEDOCLE : au Ve siècle avant JC. « car autre fois je fus jeune homme et jeune femme, arbuste et oiseau, et muet poisson de la mer... » ! et j’ai même changer de nom : Sama est une dj palestinienne et sa mère la surnomme Sama car çà veut dire petite fleur, dans ce désert. 

I started drawing with my father on his deathbed. I didn't have a camera back then. So I was faced with the pencil, the blank sheet of paper. With the long process of trying to achieve something. And then with my family's lack of recognition for my efforts. 

I no longer speak to my mother, nor to my settler family in Israel. I built myself through another way of thinking, one where I was free: art. I am searching every day, every night. The "finest sublimation," as Cynthia Fleury (philosopher) put it, through art, through life… Art, life, allows us to find who we are. Julia Kristeva (philosopher): “Everything is potentially art, that is to say, the multiplicity of possible sublimations…” By bringing together materials that don't mix, I try to evoke a small child, who dares to breathe, who dares everything, to live with fragments that are initially scattered. Of love and hate, often in the same image. And by opening oneself to everything in the world, it leads to the quote from Emphedocles: in the 5th century BC, “For once I was a young man and a young woman, a shrub and a bird, and a mute fish of the sea…”! And I even changed my name: Sama is a Palestinian DJ, and her mother nicknamed her Sama because it means little flower, in this desert.

Artist : Enrique Sama

Opening time: 12pm - 3pm
                         5pm - 7pm

social media: https://www.instagram.com/enrique.sama.official/

website: www.enrique-sama.com



EXPO: HET BEESTJE HEEFT EEN NAAM / PLAATS DELICT: MIJN BLOEDEIGEN BED

22- 24 MEI 2026

Opening 23 mei 17:00u

Essay presentatie en expositie door Mathilde Bindervoet

Twee jaar op gebroed, in een dag geschreven en om er niet alleen een hoognodige schreeuw maar ook een

goed lezende tekst van te maken nog een jaar aan geschaafd: Mathilde Bindervoet presenteert haar essay Het

Beestje Heeft Een Naam en het daarbij behorende fotografie project Plaats Delict: mijn Bloedeigen Bed. Waar

het essay ingaat op het woord ‘slachtoffer’ en hoe we daar als maatschappij mee omgaan, laat de fotografie de

rituele schildering en vrachtwagen performance van de verwijdering van de plaats delict, en daarmee een grote

pijn uit haar leven, zien.

Mathilde Bindervoet is illustrator en tekent doorgaans bij andermans teksten (o.a. voor Het Parool). Sinds haar

maandelijkse beeldcolumn voor Cineville heeft ze de afslag genomen naar het illustreren van haar eigen teksten.

In De Bouwput laat zij voor het eerst haar vrije werk zien, een huwelijk tussen tekst en beeld. Niet alleen het

bovengenoemde essay en fotografie project komen aan bod, maar ook het beeldende gedicht Mijn lijf, míj́n lijf en

twee vrolijke, lijvige borduurwerken krijgen het daglicht te zien.

De projecten worden 23-24 mei tentoongesteld in De Bouwput te Amsterdam. Je bent van harte welkom op de

opening zaterdag 23 mei vanaf 17:00u, maar de deuren zullen gedurende de dag al open zijn. De maker is trots

op haar harde werk en hoopt er een feestelijke aangelegenheid van te maken, maar gezien de aanleiding van

deze gevoelige projecten is een kleine trigger warning (seksueel geweld) op z’n plek.

23 Mei, officiële opening: 17:00u - 21:00u

22 t/m 24 mei: 13:00 - 19:00u

www.mathildebindervoet.nl

@bindrepied



I've seen it

Ive Seen It

I’ve Seen It brings together the practices of Pearl Sijmons and Lian Neeman, artists who transform their observation into visual language. Their work begins with attention; a careful, almost quiet kind of noticing. They pay attention to small details, materials, or moments that others might overlook. Pearl Sijmons translates her connection with nature with the textiles she encounters in her surroundings.

Lian Neeman approaches her observations of the rhythms and movements of the streets through her illustrations. It’s not about just seeing, but more about feeling aligned with what’s around you. To be present to the details of everyday life, give them a place and respect them in the mess of today’s society.

Pearl Sijmons

Pearl Sijmons creates textile landscapes, using discarded garments. She calls herself a contemporary impressionist, capturing the essence of our fleeting surroundings in her own tactile world. A world shaped by a deep awareness of a landscape that is constantly shifting, her work quietly reminds us that if we care for the earth, it will care for us in return. Each discarded garment in her work is one less in the landfill, to preserve a history of wear and presence in small, ordinary moments. Together, these textiles weave into a larger whole, like pieces of a patchwork to restore their value. Her art is a loving call for attention to our mother earth. Within ‘I’ve Seen It’ , her work reflects on what we observe, overlook, and leave behind.

Lian Neeman

Lian Neeman is a multi-media artist, beginning with drawing as foundation and expanding into painting, prints, installations, textile and more. Her practice is rooted in a deep connection to her surroundings which include her community, and the quiet details of daily life, often reflecting her personal experiences and beliefs. Her works have a strong base involving found materials around her and dead stock resources, which give a unique inspiration and direction to each piece considering the used material. Lian believes that it is highly important to observe your surroundings and appreciate the everyday materials we usually ignore or dispossess. Such as fruit nets, broken lighters, flatten cans and more. Her art reflects little moments in life that she thinks can and should get more attention. With this exhibition she will share her work that reflects on her daily life, feelings and thoughts expressed through drawings.