Squeeze Of The Day

Jaakko Myyri & Zuza Banasińska present “Squeeze of the Day” at Personeelskamer, staff-room of a former primary school in Amsterdam. Archive-based video installation and sculptural fortune telling engage bendable metrics of time that are inhabited with ghostly potentials, transitory items and objects. Myyri presents intimately cultivated notions around the self, future, surface and retention. With the display of laser-engraved Himalayan salt-tablets, spectators are confronted with depictions of linear time and graded cyclical layers of experienced self, where also personal narratives are injected. In the trade between concrete documented time, encoded in the presentation site of a former educational institution, the removal of function is still present - while [other] narratives are broken, an alternative trajectory of stories now propagate with accumulated temporalities, posing a question - where does the self venture from here? Banasińska is concerned with the reproduction of systems, bodies and subjectivities in their video Grandmamauntsistercat (2023, 23 min.), created from the Polish Educational Film Archive - largely didactic and propagandist films created in communist Poland. Banasińska transforms these materials into a locus of autofictional memories, subverting anthropocentric and hierarchical narratives of history. The video is narrated by a child raised in a matriarchal family, whose members strive to resist the hegemonic patriarchy by creating shelter within this body of images. Convinced in the emancipatory power of labor, the women engage in a process of self- and world-making, striving to construct themselves as subjects in a society that relentlessly objectifies them. Exploring kinship positions within the family, the child shapes their own identity, while searching for their own agency. Jaakko Myyri is a Finnish artist based in Amsterdam. His sculptural and programming based practice emphasises the materiality of human computer interfaces from geodesic onset to communicate intimate narratives in complex environments. Engaging sedimented layers that point to division of private and public spaces of the contemporaneous digital age. Myyri is a recent recipient of Mondriaan Artist Start -grant. His works have been presented in Linz FMR 21 biennale (AT), and in solo and group shows in Goodbuy Gallery (Ro), PuntWG (NL), NEVERNEVERLAND (NL) and Mythical-Institution.org. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1994, Zuza Banasińska explores layers of realities and power dynamics sedimented within images. Their essay films and installations utilize archives, video, game engines, sound, and sculpture to create complex ecosystems that challenge unitary notions of identity, gender, and representation. Zuza often delves into the debris of the former Eastern Bloc’s heritage, searching for the unintelligible or resistant moment - glimpses of stories that upset dominant power relations. Once such an element is found, each of their works follows a process of discovering and shaping characters that span machines, planets, animals, humans and others. Their works have been shown in such spaces as the U-Jazdowski CCA in Warsaw, “Dům Umění Mesta Brna” in Czech Republic, “Het Nieuwe Instituut” in Rotterdam, “Blindside” in Melbourne and many others. Their newest film, Kontrewers is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Stimuleringsfonds. KubaParisSubmission Squeeze Of The Day #SqueezeOfTheDay at Personeelskamer @personeelskamer #personeelskamer Jaakko Myyri @myyri.rr #JaakkoMyyri Zuza Banasińska @zuzabana #ZuzaBanasińska kubaparisexhibition #kubaparis