I ♥️
Duo show: Max Onink & I at The Hallen, Amsterdam, August 2022
Tekst written by Max Onink:
‘Max and Elle met at the Rietveld Academy in the Ceramics Department. In the summer of 2021, they were struck with intense love, inescapable and honest. A love that dominates the mind, and the soul and gives colour to life. An unbearable beauty, Amour fou. Max is currently studying in New York at the Pratt Institute and Elle is still in the ceramics department. The physical contact is broken, but the emotions are still consuming. They make art, an affirmation of love, a heartbreaking inability to be together. They want to celebrate their reunion by exhibiting together.’
‘Max and Elle met at the Rietveld Academy in the Ceramics Department. In the summer of 2021, they were struck with intense love, inescapable and honest. A love that dominates the mind, and the soul and gives colour to life. An unbearable beauty, Amour fou. Max is currently studying in New York at the Pratt Institute and Elle is still in the ceramics department. The physical contact is broken, but the emotions are still consuming. They make art, an affirmation of love, a heartbreaking inability to be together. They want to celebrate their reunion by exhibiting together.’
For the exhibition, we made custom shirts inspired by the iconic 'I ♥️ NYC' design. Each one hand-printed with whatever the person wearing it holds dear: