Moosje M Goosen:

REPLICATION: EVERYDAY ALL OVER

Inside this space I replicated several things from LIFE and ART, including:

– the wall of a hospital room in the Erasmus Medical Centre, divided in two different shades of green: the upper lighter part of the wall colour-coded NCS S1010-B90G, the lower part colour-coded NCS S3010-B90G
– my daily intake of medication
– my daily vitals in numeric data collected on small note cards
– a disused hospital blanket once used every day all day and all over
– Serratia marcescens (microscopic visual pattern of bacterial cells)
– the generic stock print of a NP95 mask used by myself and my partner
– a visual pattern used in the work of visual artist Marc Camille Chaimowizc
– a series of work that is also on view elsewhere
– a plant that self-replicates
– xerox copies
– a promise

A REPLICA is a COPY or REPRODUCTION of something. A REPLICA could be a DUPLICATE of an ORIGINAL ART WORK that REPLICATES an aspect of LIFE. When ART REPLICATES LIFE and another ART WORK REENACTS this ACT of REPLICATION it becomes a REFERENCE to art no longer to LIFE. When the agent that REPLICATES has the intention to turn the DUPLICATE of the ORIGINAL ART WORK into another ORIGINAL ART WORK this form of REPLICATION is usually called APPROPRIATION. When there is or seems to be no artistic intention present in the DUPLICATION of an ORIGINAL (as in cell LIFE, for instance) this is usually called REPLICATION and this is not considered ART. (It often implies ILLNESS and sometimes it means CANCER). When an agent DUPLICATES an ORIGINAL ART WORK but witholds this piece of information the work is a COUNTERFEIT or an UNAUTHORIZED COPY. The COUNTERFEIT ARTIST is considered a FRAUD. Sometimes an ARTIST only makes COPIES. When some IMAGE is COPIED OVER and OVER again, REPEATING itself without apparent end, most of the time it is not an ART WORK but a PATTERN. PATTERNS are often without AUTHOR but some ARTISTS do make PATTERNS. When an agent REPLICATES existing PATTERNS of LIFE it can become ART.

Daily Practice:

Daily Practice is delighted to welcome back artist, writer and reader Moosje M Goosen (1980, lives in Rotterdam) with the installation ‘REPLICATION: every day all over’, which she made in close conversation with Suzanne Weenink. Inside the space Moosje replicated several things from LIFE and ART. Things related to lived experiences and time with illness outside and inside the hospital.

About time:
End of March 2020, at the start of the first Covid lockdown Moosje M Goosen showed her physical text work ‘On Wards (dispatches from a hospital bed)’ at the former space of Daily Practice (Volmarijnstraat 57a). Which followed with an invitation by Kunstinstituut Melly for ’84 STEPS’ (April 2021 to September 2023). Moosjes’ text work was combined with a wooden meditation floor ‘Inwards’ and a bench designed by Daily Practice/Suzanne Weenink, thus resulting in the installation ‘On Wards Inwards’. Nienke Terpsma added meditation cushions. June 2024 ‘Inwards’ was reinstalled, recycling the wooden plates, at Daily Practice’s current space. In Summer 2025 Moosje spent her days and nights most of the time in the EMC Hospital -due to an unclear bacterial infection- looking at the painted wall of her room most of the time. There she proposed to develop an installation for Daily Practice.

About replication:
Thanks to Hanneke Kamphuis (interior architect of the new Erasmuc MC) we got the color codes of the wall, which are replicated on two walls. Moosje used the last remaining wooden plate of ‘Inwards’, which didn’t fit during the reinstallment, to design two new elements varying on the size of the already present bench.
The installation at Daily Practice will be shown simultaneously with the installation ‘REPLICATION: all day every day’ which is part of the group exhibition ‘A Room Neighbouring the Planet’ curated by Rawad Baaklini for the ArtEra Gallery, located at the Erasmus Medical Centre, open from Monday to Friday 9:00 – 18:00 hours. The Erasmus Medical Centre (Doctor Molewaterplein 40) is a 15 minute walk from Daily Practice and can be seen from the kitchen window.

Some things will be present in both places.

Moosje M Goosen asked Suzanne Weenink to create something for the kitchen window, which has resulted in ‘The Bystander’. Find more about this work at Unforeseen.

To be able to visit both installations on the same day Daily Practice will be open every Friday from 13:00 – 17:00 hrs, and any other day or time by appointment.