As part of our Exchanges with W139, we invite you to meet Seed Awardee Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra of Collective Amasijo, in conversation with flour, water, soil initiator maria khatchadourian, on Thursday, 11 June, from 17:00 to 18:30 at Domo.
Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra are the artists behind Colectivo Amasijo, a collective rooted in the shared labour of making -kneading, firing, gathering- as a form of cultural memory and resistance. Their practice draws on food, soil, and material process to explore belonging, displacement, and collective care.
Join us to explore how Amasijo work with everyday materials as carriers of history and meaning. The conversation will move between their artistic practice and the questions at the heart of the flour, water, soil exhibition: how communal processes of making can hold narratives of migration and rootedness, and how working collectively shapes the ethics of their work - the relationships they build, the knowledge they handle, and the communities they remain accountable to.
This gathering marks a moment in their ongoing residency at W139, part of the Exchanges programme, in which the Prince Claus Fund connects international awardees with Dutch cultural organisations through sustained, reciprocal exchange. The evening is an opportunity to hear directly from the artists about their work and what has emerged during their time in Amsterdam.
Exchanges is made possible through the generous support from the City of Amsterdam.
