The debut show to awaken the halls of Katoenhuis with the immersive works of leading Dutch new media artists was open during Rotterdam Art Week 2024. Nestled within the open spaces of a former cotton warehouse in the emerging M4H area, this first exhibition breathed life into its space, transforming emptiness into an experience of warped perception.

Each area within this industrial monument inhabited a work of art that distorts realities and plays with one’s perception. The vast spaces of Katoenhuis were transmorphed with large audiovisual installations into a full-body sensory experience, blurring the line between artificial and real.

Lumus Instruments presented "Polynode VI", showcasing extended lines of light that sculpt a spatial instrument, and “Actualization”, where vectors of light create geometries that continually morph and transform. Boris Acket’s work “Einder/Wind” manipulated fabric into diverse shapes propelled by an array of fans. Collaborating with Acket, Elsemarijn Bruys presented "Of Other Spaces", featuring reflective foils that subtly vibrate, transforming spaces into entangled mosaics before reverting to their original form. Simone Smelt’s “Reflecting Bodies” created an interplay of light, where volumes and textures sculpted from aluminum diffuse in multiple directions, fostering a playful and experimental environment for light and reflection. Robin Beekman presented an array of 360-degree light fixtures in the “Depth Array” luring the audience into a state reminiscent of hypnosis. Timo Lejeune’s digital work “Undetermined” drawed inspiration from chaos theory, exploring how simple rules give rise to beautiful complexity.

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