What gets lost in a translation? What can we learn from unsaid things?
And how is that silenced shaped? What do forgotten words, books, libraries and archives still tell us? Can we liberate ourselves from assumptions and pose questions instead?
Inez Piso is a curator and translator who graduated with a bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree from the Universidad Autónoma Madrid. After working four years in the CA2M, Madrid, she moved to Istanbul where she participated in the IKSV Research Programme with the HüzünProject in 2018. She worked for After the Archive? an initiative that gains attention to silenced archives and questions the role of archives in the creation of public memory in Turkey. She likes to curate exhibitions in unexpected spaces, like an archival box that once belonged to Ulises Carrión: No Todo ~ Niet Alles or the public ferry that crosses the waters of Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Ferry Festival. At the end of 2021 she became the artistic director of HMK: an exhibition space an artist-in-residence programme located in a 17th century chapel.
She is teaches for the MA programme F for Fact at the Sandberg Institute and the Language and Image Department at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She is also a teacher at the Fine Arts Bachelor programme at Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. Although her practice is about things that cannot be said with words, she sometimes writes for art magazines like Mister Motley. She is continuously bridging cultural and geographical spaces with her interests in language and translation.
Inez Piso reside entre Ámsterdam y Estambul. Estudió Historia del Arte y un Master en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual por la UAM. Ha trabajado en el departamento de exposiciones del MNCARS y el CA2M. Ha sido asistente de comisariado en ARCOMadrid. Sus últimos proyectos comisariales han sido Living with Ghosts en el Schloss Ringenberg (Alemania), Breathing Space, un proyecto performativo en el Museo de Arnhem (Países Bajos) y De Schaduw van de Haan en Vishal (Países Bajos) y Silent dance en Akbank Sanat (Turquía). Sus proyectos se desarrollan a menudo alrededor estructuras invisibles que tienen consecuencias tangibles. Actualmente trabaja en Estambul sobre una investigación en torno al las fronteras del silencio imperceptible.