Atelier GF Workstation Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eerste van Swindenstraat 116 HS
+31 (0) 647198 506
ivanijetu@gmail.com
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Atelier GF Workstation (Guzman & Jankovic) was founded by Antonio Jose Guzman in 1995. The studio develops innovative multidisciplinary collaborative projects with numerous organisations and institutions internationally. Working in collaboration with a global network of visionary artists. We envision interdisciplinary spaces and audio visual projects exploring the role of the arts in postcolonial cultural politics and researching on hybridising identities.
The studio is a firebrand deciphering about issues of race and power, reinventing and re-contextualizing modernism as a critical tool in the understanding of cultural studies. Since the studio was founded, we have created a series of self initiated projects, some of which have become influential in both sides of the atlantic.
EDS Series: Electric Dub Station is an ongoing project by visual artists Iva Jankovic and Antonio Jose Guzman. Together, they reinterpret the transatlantic connections of indigo textiles, which are deeply embedded with the history of western colonialism. In their work the indigo color represents the diasporic, cultural, and economic history of textile trade and memories of ancient spirits. The textiles are developed in the artist's studio in Amsterdam Oost and block printed at Sufiyan Khatri’s Indigo Workshop in Ajrakhpur, India.
