Where We Are

'Where We Are' is a duo exhibition by filmmakers Laury Hooghuis and Tess Martin that creates space for stillness, repetition, and re-experience. 'Under Reconstruction' and 'Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter' engage in a dialogue about time, memory, and how we revisit and reshape moments.

You’re invited on a journey—through memory and movement, between the past and the present.

Each film shapes its own rhythm, its own sense of time—subtle, shifting, and always in dialogue with the space and the viewer. How do we move through time? How do we remember, re-experience, and reshape what has already passed?

Experience how one place, at one time, can open into another time altogether.

'Under Reconstruction' is an 8-minute film piece by filmmaker Laury Hooghuis, based in Amsterdam. This film was featured in de Volkskrant last February, where it was described as: “Under Reconstruction has an ambiguous tension, both through the uncanny sounds […] and through the sure-handed direction and rhythmic editing. The film showcases a carefully constructed choreography of glances, movements and footsteps that follow each other in such a way that the viewer’s imagination naturally weaves an associative story.” — 2025.

'Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter', a modern interpretation of a classical still life, lasts only 2 minutes and 14 seconds but was shot in one nine-hour marathon session, with a photo taken every 30 seconds. Originally created under the ‘Ultrakort’ scheme of the Dutch Film Fund, it is presented here as an installation for the first time. Tess Martin, based in Rotterdam, pushes the conceptual potential of hand-made animation and the narrative potential of site-specific pieces in her work.