Mother’s Shoes
A solo exhibition by Lily Lanfermeijer
Gallery van Fanny Freytag is excited to announce a collaborative exhibition with Lily Lanfermeijer from December 6 until December 21 with a festive opening on December 7, 16:00-19:00.
Stepping into the exhibition Mother’s Shoes means entering a slower rhythm. The space is shaped around attention, tactility, and the small rituals that guide how we relate to our surroundings. Surfaces shift under your feet; light changes the atmosphere, textures invite a different kind of looking.
The works bring together clay, print, and spatial gestures to explore how thinking can become physical. Ideas are not presented as conclusions but as materials; malleable, repeated, reconsidered. Ceramic Thinking Hats inspired by Edward de Bono’s framework appear throughout the space, reimagined in clay.
Over the course of two weeks, the presentation unfolds as an ongoing process rather than a fixed display. Conversations, performances, and encounters reactivate the space, leaving traces that are as temporary and intertwined as footprints in sand. Visitors are invited into a setting where thought, movement, and atmosphere merge. An environment that encourages slowing down, paying attention, and thinking together.
With events and contributions by Davy Wouda, Lia Mansour-Khoury, Bronwen Jones, Sara Pezzolesi, Emma van den Berg, Ariel Collier, Alexandra Duvekot and Julia Dahee Hong.
More programme details soon.
ABOUT LILY LANFERMEIJER
Thinking about the representation of space within a sculptural context Lily Lanfermeijer often works with materials and techniques that are fairly robust themselves (wood, glass, plaster and metal crafted by hand, machine or mold) and she likes to lighten their severity by introducing other shapes that evoke a different kind of recognition.
The sculptures Lanfermeijer makes are often objects that depict social interaction between people. Recurring sources of inspiration for example are articles that bring individuals together, such as the table; craft exchange; the banner or toys.
Often one work supports, carries or encapsulates another. Ultimately, her work is about storytelling through objects. Mostly this takes the form of sculptural installations that experiment with different materials based on thoughts about the body, the interior and architectural ideas.
Her work has been shown in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Amsterdam), Germany, Belgium, France, Scotland and Slovenia. Billy Town Den Haag (2019), Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenie (2018), Worm Rotterdam (2016), De Fabriek Eindhoven (2016), Object Rotterdam (2014), EESAB, Lorient, France (2014), The Old Ambulance Depot Edinburgh (2014), De Witte Moor Gent (2012), De Oude Kerk Amsterdam (2012), Joods Historisch Museum (2012).