Dialogues of the Gray Area: A collaborative project on global migration, identities and contemporary jewellery

The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Mexican Embassy in the Netherlands and the Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development are pleased to invite you to the lecture Dialogues of the Gray Area: A collaborative project on global migration, identities and contemporary jewellery.

The lecture will be delivered by Valeria Vallarta Siemelink (Mexico-NL) and Andrea Wagner (NL), curators of the exhibition Walking the Gray Area, with an introduction of the art critic Jose Manuel Springer (Mexico) and a discussion by two of the Walking the Gray Area artists Jorge Manilla (Mexico-Belgium) and Peter Hoogeboom (NL).

Walking the Gray Area is a project that puts over 40 visual and jewellery artists from Europe and Latin America into a dialogue about migration, identities and contemporary jewellery. The dialogue has evolved in a successful blog that has been visited by almost eight thousand people in four months. The proceedings of these dialogues will be presented in a collective exhibition to premiere in Mexico City next April 2010.

The lecture is part of the cultural program developed by the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Embassy of Mexico in the Netherlands, within the frame of the exhibition Mexico: Expected/Unexpected. Do not miss the chance to visit the exhibition.