Photo: Monia Pavoni
On 10 July, Marres opens for the six-week performance Moon (working title) by the unconventional duo Domenik Naue and Ashley Ho, in collaboration with visual artist Henri Jacobs.
Naue and Ho are known for creating playful theater pieces in which the protagonists try to find one another in a strange and unfamiliar landscape. At Marres, this durational performance unfolds in a futuristic setting where scent, music, and the house come together in unexpected ways. The novel The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry serves as a quiet source of inspiration.
Photo: Andy Cahyo
Biography
ashleyho+domeniknaue
ashleyho+domeniknaue is a gathering of bodies and hearts. Ashley Ho (Singapore) and Domenik Naue (Germany) weave together different art forms, including dance, poetry, graphic design, sound, and scenography. Performance is a way of approaching the world differently: an intimate, political process in which they change and are changed. Playfully and vulnerably, Ho and Naue explore ways of navigating the challenges of our time. Traces, objects, touch, absence, and attention play a central role in their work.
Their collaboration grew out of a friendship in 2019. In 2022, they both graduated from the Dancer/Maker program at ArtEZ University of the Arts. They are now based in Amsterdam and active in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Singapore.
Biography
Henri Jacobs
Henri Jacobs (the Netherlands, 1957) has been living and working in Brussels since 1993.
His 40 years of artistic production have resulted in a diverse oeuvre ranging from paintings, woven tapestries, murals, brick and cobblestone mosaic commissions, and ceramics, to drawings in various techniques.
In September 2013, the book Henri Jacobs – Journal Drawings was published by Roma Publications Amsterdam. The book is a record of nine years of drawing and image collecting.
In November 2024, the book New Surface Research was released by the same publisher. It presents the culmination of ten years of paper weaving. The concept of Surface Research serves as the guiding principle in exploring two-dimensionality: the tactility and recto-verso proposition of the paper surface.
Partners / Thanks to:
From 2024 to 2026, ashleyho+domeniknaue are supported by the Nieuwe Makers Scheme (FPK), in collaboration with Dansateliers and SPRING Festival. They are also associate artists at Dance Nucleus (Singapore).
Marres receives structural funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
