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<\/p>\nThe eye-catchers are hefty. Riar Rizaldi, from Indonesia, made Tropenkolder: a film installation in which he uses re-enactment to make the invisible work of Javanese railroad workers visible through so-called phantom ride films, images once shot from moving trains. That same colonial perspective is central to Dominion by the duo Jongsma + O'Neill (Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill). They used artificial intelligence to reconstruct encounters that were never filmed: those between Dutch Catholic missionaries and the people of the island of Flores. What was never recorded is now being made visible.<\/p>\n
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EYE itself is already a special location for such an exhibition. The futuristic building on the northern IJ bank, designed by the Viennese firm DMAA, has four cinema halls and a large changing exhibition space. That the museum considers its collection a \u2018Living Archive,\u2019 open to reuse and new interpretations, is exactly what Eye(s) Open makes possible. Moreover, there is an extensive fringe program: films, talks and events in the cinema halls, and a sixty-minute guided tour every Sunday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
Ten new works that answer from within what those old images do not show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Eleven artists from countries including Indonesia, the Netherlands, Jamaica and the United Kingdom, ten new works, and an archive of 2,000 films as a starting point. Eye(s) Open runs until Sept. 6, 2026. The Sunday tour costs $7.50 per person and lasts one hour. There is a separate offer for secondary and higher education students. The museum in the Overhoeks neighborhood can be reached by ferry from Central Station in a few minutes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"