Sustaining the Otherwise: Practicing Freedom and Refusal - Opening
Vrijdag 27. februari om 18:00 - 22:00
Metro54, Amsterdam
Join us for the opening reception of Sustaining the Otherwise: Practicing Freedom and Refusal on Friday, February 27th 2026, from 6pm at Metro54, Westerdoksdijk 597, Amsterdam.
The space will be opened with an activation by one of the exhibiting artists: AYO, with ‘A score for Atat’s homestead’ followed by alongside talks from the curators. We look forward to seeing you there! Practicing Freedom and Refusal unfolds as part of Sustaining the Otherwise, a collective and ongoing inquiry into how we might live, think and create otherwise, within and against the enduring structures of coloniality.
Initiated by curators Selene Wendt and Amal Alhaag, Sustaining the Otherwise is a collaborative research and artistic project which explores questions of restitution, reparation and transformation. Practicing Freedom and Refusal is part of the project’s multilocational artistic program, and actively engages with the topic of restitution by centralizing research-based artistic practices and lifeworlds that sit with the tensions of colonial terror and confront the (im)possibility of restitution, rematriation, and freedom.
With that in mind, Practicing Freedom and Refusal positions the work of artists AYO, Masimba Hwati, Christian Nyampeta, Adeju Thompson, and Helena Uambembe as distinctly shaped by the nuances and complexities of the dual action of practicing freedom and refusal.
Image by Adeju Thompson.
🔥Date: Friday 27th February
🔥Time: 18:00 - 21:00
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597,
🔥Please RSVP
We hope to see you at our space, on Friday 27th February at 6pm
Metro54 • Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland