Following the warm reception of Johnny Mae Hauser’s solo debut at Photo London last year, and our subsequent Hyde Park exhibition in London – which presented a dialogue between Hauser and her partner in life (and occasionally in art), painter Aldo van den Broek – we’re excited to return to Somerset House for it’s 10th anniversary.

This time, we present The Visitor: a leading chapter in the unfolding artistic conversation between Hauser & van den Broek.

The Visitor delves into the complexities of transforming identities- as artists, as a man and a woman, as a couple, as a new family. A curated dialogue between Van Den Broek’s layered paintings and Hauser’s abstract photographs, The Visitor is an expression of their identities in flux through shifting memories and relationships. Although both artists maintain completely separate practices and approaches, The Visitor also demonstrates that they do not operate in a creative vacuum; at times, boundaries between self and other, presence and absence, are blurred. ‘It’s equally about the harmony as much as the friction of two perspectives colliding.’ It’s freedom and safety, it’s escapism as well as domesticity, a push and a pull -the duality of life expressed in duo.

Van den Broek (1985) and Hauser (1997) are Amsterdam-based artists who are partners in life and occasionally collaborate as an artist duo. Their works are included in Dutch, German, US and Japanese institutional collections and leading private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, US and UK. Both artists have exhibited widely, with shows across the Netherlands, Berlin, London, New York, Taipei, and Tokyo.

Thursday May 15 from 1pm – 8pm |
Friday May 16 from 1pm – 8pm
Saturday May 17 from 1pm – 8pm
Sunday May 18 18 from 12pm – 6pm

Somerset House, London
booth G15