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  • Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Future Footnotes (detail), 2018, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez.

    Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Future Footnotes (detail), 2018, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez.

    Wendelien van Oldenborgh

    Significant Other

    Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s installation Future Footnotes, 2018, was a version of a new film in progress that will premiere at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin this March in an exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Bauhaus. The film is a major production with a highly complex narrative, involving the stories of Lotte Stam-Beese, one of the first female architects to be trained at the Bauhaus; Hannes Meyer, her lover and the school’s second director; Hermina Dumont Huiswoud, a Guyanese anticolonial activist; and Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance poet; as well as contemporary

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