A Personal Gesture Travelogue
On 8th July 2025 during a celebratory party in the Haringey Warehouse District, East London, A Personal Gesture was passed on from the Thibaut family to artists Carolina Khouri, Wojciech Antoni Sobczynski and the Warehouse Art Collective.
July 8, 2025: Thibaut family hands over the arm to Carolina Khouri at the Warehouse Art Collective in East London.
December 8, 2024 - July 8, 2025 the arm is with the Thibaut family.
Matthias Thibaut writes: In the beginning we had the arm on the upright piano, the only place where it was not interfering with more
December 8, 2024: Mary Evans hands over the arm to Thibaut family at their home in West London.
December 1, 2023 - December 8, 2024 the arm is with Mary Evans.
During that time The Personal Gesture was a thoughtful addition to Mary's office at the Slade School of Fine Art. More following soon...
December 1, 2023: Carly Everaert hands over the arm to Mary Evans in London.
July 7, 2023 - December 1, 2023 the arm is with Carly Everaert.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy
An arm, an arm to take care of more
July 7, 2023: Nancy Jouwe on her way to hand over the arm to Carly Everaert.
November 8, 2022 - July 7, 2023 the arm is with Nancy Jouwe.
Stopover
The next stop for A Personal Gesture was on November 8, 2022, where the hand was offered to me while I formally started my three-year Fellowship at the Loods of the HKU, which houses the MA Fine Arts. I had taught more
November 8, 2022: Kitty Zijlmans hands over the arm to Nancy Jouwe. 2022 © Rudi Struik
March 8, 2022 - November 8, 2022 the arm is with Kitty Zijlmans.
Stopover
The next stop for A Personal Gesture was on the 17th of March 2022, during the course 'Art in a Global Perspective', which Kitty Zijlmans (Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Art History/World Art Studies at more
2022 © Judith Hellemons
September 14, 2021 - March 8, 2022 the arm is with Ineke Sluiter.
The arm
In 1972, a confused Australian with a sledgehammer attacks Michelangelo's Pietà (1499), the iconic sculpture of the mother holding her son's dead body in her lap. With fierce blows, he chops off Mary's left arm, which is reaching out more
April 1 - September 14, 2021 the arm is with Liesbeth Bik.
Arm and hand
Never before in my life have I become so aware of this part of my body as I am now. The arm, eventually ending in the hand. Shortly after I received A Personal Gesture from Anne, I broke my wrist. more
April 1, 2021: Anne Vegter hands over the arm to Liesbeth Bik.
November 28, 2020 - April 1, 2021 the arm is with Anne Vegter.
Upon acceptance she pronounces the following text:
My connection to this moment is the early involvement of the Akademie van Kunsten in your residency in Rome, at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). We chose your Pietà project as surprising, vital and connective research. more
On the 28th of November 2020, Anne Vegter officially accepts the artwork A Personal Gesture during Art Amsterdam. This act takes place in Hurkmans' solo exhibition Pietà, A Reconsideration of the Gesture at Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam.
