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Gabrielle gordeau is sinds 2023 beeldend kunstenaar in amsterdam. neuroqueer, met een achtergrond in cultural studies, sociaal werk en muurschildering gaat haar werk over de manier waarop we omgaan met de onophoudelijke stroom van informatie en hoe we daar samen betekenis van maken.
nieuwsgierigheid en verwarring, rommel is een productieve kracht en niet elke vorm van orde werkt voor iedereen. Verschillende manieren van waarnemen, voelen, denken, communiceren en doen. Welke manieren mogen daarbij ruimte innemen en van wie?
haar methodes omvatten keramiek, installatie, sculptuur, onderzoek, schilderen, samenwerking en schrijven.
2025/heden (nu bezig met):
onderzoek naar samenwerking en alternatieven voor efficientie- en productielogica
materiaalonderzoek keramiek, studiowerk
publicatie artikelen en bundel geillustreerde essays
vooronderzoek sculptuur in de publieke ruimte
2024/2025:
Tubelight publicatie essay ‘built to spill - deceptacon’
buro stedelijk, live studio, performance, installatie en groepstentoonstelling
suresure expositie, ondersteund door amsterdams fonds voor de kunst
serie muurschilderingen, ondersteund door gemeente amsterdam en in samenwerking met buurthuis de bol en bewoners
serie community events en samenwerkingen, samenwerking met pansy, bovenij ziekenhuis, stichting dock, ondersteund door gemeente amsterdam
pansy groepstentoonstellingen en workshops
andere interessante bezigheden:
zine ‘histarical’
Rephrasing memory deelname groepsexpositie Casa tres patios Argentina, schilderijen
serie tekeningen voor ‘Troostboek’, over rouwverwerking - Stichting emoena
wilde weten presentatie zine ‘my cup of tea’ met sarojini lewis
doorlopend: hoofdredactie van twee kwartaal-buurtkranten in amsterdam noord, ondersteund door buurthuis de bol en buurthuis buuf&buur en fondsen gemeente amsterdam en noordmakers
bubbelen (opladen) op de bank met tex
“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture”
“We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”
“The word is my fourth dimension”
“The purpose of a system is what it does”
“My hands move. My feet move. I don’t know how to move them, though. It’s like everything is moving all these parts. It’s funny. It’s like I’m in there, somewhere inside myself, and the body I’m in keeps on changing, more and more and more and more, in ways I don’t even know. I wish I didn’t care. But I do care.”
“Imma do the best I can, with what I got”
I am Gabrielle Gordeau, an autistic/neuroqueer visual artist based in Amsterdam with a background in cultural studies and mural art. My practice is in tran
sition from applied practice to autonomous work, from large-scale 2D murals to multisensory installations that involve clay, research, experience, consciousness, text, and touch, deliberately decentering the visual and the rational.
I work with tactile, biomorphic forms and kinetic elements to explore sensory memory, transformation, and the porous boundaries between bodies, minds, objects, and environments. My overarching themes are what i call ‘pudding’ and exploration. My process is thorough, slow, embodied, and attentive to the unseen. Valuing iterations, intuition, interiority, freewriting, wonder, and situated (inter)subjectivity over fixed meaning. I approach art-making as i approach life: an open system - hyperconnected, living, sometimes fragmented, sometimes spherical, overwhelming but exciting, and deeply relational - inviting audiences to inhabit difference rather than resolve it. I see formalism in any human expression as both a tool for clarity and a weapon of normativity, as i observe how we negotiate room for actual life within it.
I am interested in creating spaces where many sensory, emotional, and interior experiences and perspectives get to coexist. Places that resist the pressure for central coherence and instead celebrate fluidity, decentralisation, contradiction, depth, complexity, multiplicity, layers webs and the power that lies in allowing all of those to connect and decompose, without forcing certain hierarchies. Having said that: scroll to the bottom of the page to find various ways I am immersed in all kinds of structures (my gmail, kvk, vat, bank information)
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Gabrielle Gordeau is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. She works in ceramics, installation, and writing, among other forms. Her practice celebrates multiplicity and positionality. Bodies, ideas, objects may seem singular but never fixed; they flow, melt, and re-form through and with each other. this is no space for a hero’s journey or a linear narrative - everything relates to everything, the space it happens in is what holds things together (not the order of ‘normalcy’). Confusion and chaos mean room for creativity: the physical consists of portals, warpholes, spaces open to be experienced and alright with disorder. Curious beings move through them, sometimes falling apart, sometimes working together, always in a spiral of part and whole without an endpoint.
KVK/COC
91213444
BANK
NL90 RABO 0368 4220 89
VAT
NL004878136B19
CONTACT
gabriellegordeau@gmail.com