2015: Important Souvnirs

Amie Dicke was invited to stage an artistic intervention at a monumental canalside building in central Amsterdam that had been home to the aristocratic painter Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1912-2013) for more than 70 years. The house still contained her extensive library and unsorted piles of white and yellow papers. One of Gisèle’s stacks of documents was labelled with a misspelt handwritten note that read: “DO NOT TOUCH – I am sorting important souvnirs,” which Dicke says resonated with her own work at the house. Dicke’s explorations resulted in a website and a book.