Saturday, 27 June 2009
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FOAMing. In...
Amsterdam, Netherlands
What had been promised to us to be a wonderful weather weekend actually was very sticky and very grey for most of the day. Amsterdam was covered with clouds but the humidity was quite high. If I had wanted sticky weather like this I would have moved to Florida! Anyhoo...
In the morning I just couldn't bring myself to leaving the house. It's funny how that works. In advance I always look forward to my three day weekend, but once freedom actually is there, and especially on Saturdays, I sometimes find it difficult to actually enjoy it. It's a general feeling that has been coming over me in recent weeks and months... the feeling that something needs to happen, something needs to change. That the way things are going now is simply not good enough, that it's not worth it to keep living my life the way I do now for another couple of decades. And in a mood like that, it's sometimes difficult to snap out of it and actually enjoy summer in your own city.
I went to FOAM in the afternoon. Of the three exhibitions on display, the one of photographer Guy Tillim was by far the most interesting and the most beautiful. In several African countries, Tillim took pictures of buildings that were constructed at the time these countries became independent from their colonisers in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, these buildings were gleaming and shining new structures, but decades later, with hopes of an independent and democratic Africa long diminished, the buildings as well look derelict and tired. Absolutely beautiful pictures. I spent a lot of time, for example, staring at this picture of a worker in City Hall in Lumumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fascinating details in a very sobering picture.
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