2016: Sucking Stones

At this month-long solo exhibition at Amsterdam’s Looiersgracht 60 gallery, Amie Dicke presented some of her newest works within the walls of this former cardboard and bottling plant – a building whose layered identity she referenced.
The site-specific installation ‘Closed Eyes’ saw Dicke create a delicate and precarious landscape by covering open books and magazines with large quantities of flesh-coloured foundation. Sentences were largely illegible under the powder, but the obliteration of some of the words gave unexpected emphasis and resonance to others, and the publications were rendered touchingly human.
The juxtaposition of intimacy and confrontation was encapsulated in the piece '38 and a half' with its book pages depicting two images of Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa meeting halfway.