Arrangements is an exhibition by Tom Hallet, Maria Nolla Mateos and Ana Resende. The exhibition came together through looking carefully at archival photographs of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis. Pictures of hospital spaces where small acts of domestic improvisation, and communal gestures, fabric draped over harsh lights, makeshift decorations in sterile rooms, or theater plays staged by patients, recall the often-overlooked ways people nurture one another in the cracks of institutions.

These moments, like the artworks themselves, gesture towards practices of relationality: by softening, covering, holding, or dimming. Through projections, curtains, and revealed traces, the artworks propose a willingness to be shaped through connection rather than rigid autonomy.

“Wall drawings accompany the pencil works on paper. Veiled in a fine layer of charcoal dust, they reveal their own histories, scarred, rearranged, patched, and layered with traces of past exhibitions. Through this intervention, Hallet interrogates how institutions can both preserve and present artists’ stories while repeatedly painting over their own surfaces. Can true inclusivity exist if it is endlessly whitewashed? By leaning into the unknown and allowing forms to emerge without control, the drawings find a way to coexist with the past rather than erase it.

Curated: Tom Hallet, Maria Nolla Mateos and Ana Resende


Participating Artists: Tom Hallet, Maria Nolla Mateos and Ana Resende