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Sloterdykes by Zeedykes @ ISO Amsterdam
Club Night ~ Pride
Scenography ~ Light@zeedyke_
For Zeedykes’ Pride gathering, themed Radical Tenderness, I was invited to develop the scenography for the entire space. The conceptual framework imagined a temporary autonomous queer universe, a secret lesbian revolution happening inside a dream. Soft rebellion, underground romance, intimacy, and tenderness became the guiding principles for the spatial transformation.
I invited artists Mia Cecille and Lois Forbes to join the production, building the space collectively through textiles, installation, and spatial interventions.
The entrance became an intentional portal into this other world. TERNURA RADICAL, radical tenderness, framed the way in. From there, hand-dyed fabrics in layers of pinks and reds descended from the ceiling and travelled into the dancefloor. The textiles partially obscured the space from view, making the visitor an active element of the scenography: you had to become curious, move through the layers, and discover what was hidden beyond them.
A maze emerged from translucent fabrics, creating a dreamlike, clouded landscape that had to be navigated intentionally. Within it, a small suspended tent appeared, reminiscent of a child’s fort, floating somewhere between reality and imagination. Surrounded by lace and soft textures, it became a pocket for intimacy and retreat within the larger celebration.
Vintage screens formed part of Dark Room Riots, a video installation previously explored by Zeedykes. Short, vibrant films moved between intimacy, fragments of 1970s lesbian pornography, and more abstract imagery. The stacked screens became another point of curiosity within the space, inviting visitors to pause and look closer.
At the centre of the scenography, a large temporary tent opened like a flower, gathering the public inside its soft, enveloping structure. At its heart, another portal called for shared silence and contemplation. The installation was conceived as something almost alive, exploring the possibility of spaces holding their own presence, agency, and spirit.
Through textiles, movement, intimacy, and dream logic, the scenography became an invitation to temporarily step outside of the familiar and inhabit a queer universe where tenderness itself could become a form of rebellion.
images by Loes de Boer
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