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How the world occurs: 3 reasons to visit the exhibition

For all you art enthusiasts out there, there’s a great exhibition on right now at the Centraal Museum. How the world occurs by Craigie Horsfield offers you an opportunity to reflect on the world and your perception of it.

The exhibition is well worth a visit, and here are just three reasons why.

How YOUR world occurs

This part of the exhibit is interactive and shaped by the viewers. Check out this page (the introduction is in Dutch but the rest is in English) to answer a few questions and create a ‘poem’ of sorts – it’ll be projected onto the wall at the museum… your very own 15 minutes of fame!

(Personally I’d have to disagree with that sentiment… 😛 )

Enchanting tapestries

As you go through the exhibit, you come face to face with a number of gorgeous tapestries that are so big you feel like you could step right into the scenes they portray. One of these tapestries is of an enormous rhino from the Oxford zoo – a definite fan favourite!

Portraits of Utrechters

My favourite! For this project, Craigie Horsfield met with Utrechters for two-hour periods, during which they simply talked – about anything. His camera went off every minute. Afterwards, he went through all of the pictures and chose a single one of each person. The portraits are wonderfully captivating, and you’ll find yourself itching to ask them “penny for your thought?”.