The De Appel arts centre present Nina Yuen an exhibition on view 8 February–13 April 2014.
in her videos Nina Yuen circumspectly creates an intimate world in which the ultrapersonal comes together with the general human condition. Yuen threads together reflections that might be committed to a diary, childhood memories, references to forgotten figures from art and general history and philosophic speculations on great themes such as death, love, beauty and creativity to produce films in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are tissue-thin. They draw from a range of sources: magic and nature, events from the lives of her father and mother, the painter Joe Andoe and the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir, or the adventures of the adolescent students she teaches. The results are videos that are dreamy, hypnotic, and sometimes enchanting.
De Appel arts centre
Prins Hendrikkade 142
1011 AT Amsterdam
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Sunday noon–6pm
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