A dialogue between the artists Louwrien Wijers, Rory Pilgrim, Egon Hanfstingl and Philipp Gufler. Together they will explore Louwrien’s artworks, the significance of food, intergenerational friendships among artists, and the importance of learning from one another.

Tomorrow's Language was organized within Substitutes, an exhibition initiated by Philipp Gufler running from April 22nd to June 18th 2023 at W139. It was part of Amsterdam Art Week 2023.

Substitutes engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe our bodies—costuming, staging, masks, layering, clothing. It questions the normative frameworks that queer and functionally diverse people are subjected to. The human body is, paradoxically, both absent and present within the exhibition. 

Initiated by the artist Philipp Gufler, Substitutes brings together works of Lorenza Böttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, Johannes Büttner, and Bruno Zhu.

Tomorrow's Language — Louwrien Wijers, Rory Pilgrim, Egon Hanfstingl and Philipp Gufler at W139

Podcasts, soundscapes, radio recording and lectures from W139. An Artspace based in Amsterdam since 1979.

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