Demonst(e)rating the Untamable Monster, Artist Cihad Caner

Opening night performance, an invitation to the spirits with Daryl Grootfam

A performance, Nur Kuwarsa, with artist Gilang Manapu Manik and accompanied musician Bintang Manira Manik

Workshop [we can still build a home while float] with workshop facilitator and artist Kwin Le

Worlds Between Words opened on November 19, 2021, as part of the year-long Poule Program, MaMA Rotterdam. The exhibition aimed to highlight a complex dynamic of stories that exist in the city of Rotterdam, transported by a history of migrating people. Transparent walls created from PVC corrugated sheets run through MaMA, carving a labyrinth into the space. From outside visitors can see a glimmer or flash of coloured lights.

WBW follows the theme of language; examining language outside of established linguistic frameworks and focusing on forms of storytelling that encapsulate intimate migrative experiences. The stories encountered in this labyrinth ask visitors to be attentive to the nuances they may feel, hear or see and by doing so enter a world of a distant sea, a singing monster, scripts from an afterworld and the power of the pronounced name.

Artists - Ada M. Patterson, Cihad Caner, Gilang Anom M. M. & Tarona

Performance Program - Daryl Grootfam, Magdalena Petrova, Gilang Anom M. M., Sarafina Paulina Bonita & Venla Miila Kaarina

Workshop facilitator [ we can still build a home while floating]
Kwin Le

Scenographer Roxette Capriles

Inside the labyrinth, (left) you to exist Kanga For the Present, a work by Ada M Patterson and on the right, you enter the cave of the monster.

In the month of December, the exhibition closed early due to COVID-19 loackdowns, and so with the MaMA team a short tour of the exhibition was created with interviews of the artists and music be artist Beallmighty.