Be Mov(i)e

Elly Strik, 1981, Black- and-white photographs, 15,7 x 45,5 cm

Be Mov(i)e
17.01.26 - 28.02.26

Movement as something shared.

A way of seeing together.

Join us for the opening on Saturday 17, from 5 to 8 pm

Co-curated with Wumen Ghua

Works by Moreno Schweikle, Jesse Siegel, Elly Strik, Majd Suliman, Luca Tichelman, Jan Tomza-Osiecki.

Written text by Wumen Ghua

“Every name in history is I…”¹ When artists move along with the world’s evolution, the ego—the I—is embedded and abandoned at the same time. In Be Mov(i)e), works by Moreno Schweikle, Jesse Siegel, Elly Strik, Majd Suliman, Luca Tichelman, and Jan Tomza-Osiecki explore the fluid interplay between body, material and consciousness as they oscillate through time and desire, multiply, and emulsify. 

Be Mov(i)e situates itself as an inquiry into perception, participation and experiment of how we attain a synchronicity of seeing. Taking inspiration from the Lumière brothers’ invention of the Cinématographe (1895)², a device capable of recording, copying, and projecting simultaneously, the exhibition returns to cinema’s earliest promise: movement as an unbroken flow, where the world reveals itself as one, and the viewer is carried along.

The works on view resist being broken up or tied to a single story. Each operates as a self-contained world, unfolding on its own terms while inviting you to enter.  Here, the (i) in Mov(i)e becomes operative, not as a stable subject, but as a shifting point of identification that dissolves the boundary between observer and artwork. In doing so, the exhibition quietly challenges the copy-write of worlds, suggesting that how worlds are seen and experienced is something we share.

By inviting audiences to move with the artworks, Be Mov(i)e challenges the Western canon of the gaze: a static, one-directional act of looking and possessing. To look here is not an act of attachment, it is resonance. A shared movement. A conscious entanglement. Perception is no longer a solitary gesture, but a field of mutual becoming.

In a world shaped by reels, endless scrolls, and ever-shrinking attention spans, where the velocity of change mirrors the accelerating fever of the Amazon, what does it mean to remain present? To stay aligned, attentive, engaged? How do we stay with an image, with one another, long enough to truly see?

Perhaps this is the question that matters now.

Wumen is an artist and independent curator. Her curatorial practice is grounded in human kindness and reciprocity, especially in moments of crisis. She graduated BA Fine Art (Painting) at Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, Netherlands, and holds a Ph.D. of Industrial Chemistry & Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. 

Moreno Schweikle, B-900 (Spring Cooler), 2025, 135 x 50 x 50 cm

References
1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Jacob Burckhardt, January 5, 1889, in Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Christopher Middleton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), 347. (Translator’s note.)

2. Martín, P. G. (2019, February 22). Lights! Camera! Action! How the Lumière brothers invented the movies. National Geographic History Magazine.