MILLE PIANI


Screen print and epoxy resin on plexiglass,
40x50 cm
2020
Are the
choices we make real choices? This work starts with this question and with a
photo taken in the NDSM area in Amsterdam Noord: a place that has been changing
very rapidly in recent years. This terrain belonged to a shipbuilding company
that existed until 1984. After this 90 hectare area of docks and shipyards
became derelict, it was bought by the Amsterdam-Noord borough.
In the 1990s,
NDSM was largely squatted before the borough underwent a processof urban regeneration process in 1999.
A number of squats which were seen as cultural hotspots and legalized across
the city including NDSM, which became popular as a cultural incubator zone,
despite its relative distance from the centre of Amsterdam. The up and coming
area soon started to attract big companies and, as a result, property prices shoot
up.
