• Indoor space with white walls and a large purple carpet at the centre. On top of the carpet, there is a L shape white table, with two chairs. On top of the table there is a desktop computer, headphones, a book and other objects. Hanging on the wall, to the left, are nine rows of photograph shelfs, filled with photographs. To the right, there is a tall plant and next to it a large word gratified in brown ink, across the corner of the room. Hanging on top of the graffiti, there is an arrangement of photographs. A white block and a wooden cabinet are visible at the back of the room. A photograph hangs above the cabinet. Hanging from the ceiling, in the middle of the room, there is a piece of see-through purple fabric with words painted in gold.

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • A reflection on a glass surface shows a river and buildings on the opposite bank. In purple text, the following text appears:

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • A person sits in front of an Apple desktop computer. They have their left hand on their chin and the right hand on the computer mouse. On the table, there is a pair of headphones and a closed spiral bound book. They are looking at a photograph on the desktop screen, which shows four frames hanging on a wall: three rectangular ones and, above them, a triangular one. At the back, there are four rows of photograph shelfs with photographs of green, natural settings; a tall plant and several photographs attached to the wall.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • In a wooden shelf cabinet, there are 6 grey storage boxes with white stickers on the left side. A person, whose hands and forearms are visible, is pulling out the second box from the top.

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • Wooden box with two plastic bags with paper and fabric inside. Above the box. There are two grey storage boxes with white stickers on the left side.

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • A scribble has been graffitied on a wall in light brown ink. Several photographs and printed pages have been nailed to the wall, some of them partially covering the scribble. Most of these images have

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • A piece of black and purple fabric with a flower lies extended on top of a black frame, on top of a white table. On top of the fabric, there is a stack of photographs and a pair of white gloves. A chair is partially visible at the back, next to the table.

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    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.

  • In the middle of a room, on top of a purple carpet, there is a white L shaped table. At the end of the table there is an Apple desktop computer. One person sits at the table, wearing white gloves. They are holding a paper, which they look at. There are other paper materials next to them, as well as several slide photographs on a white surface, which is propped up. Another person stands in front of an open grey box, looking down. There are sheets of paper on both halves of the box.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • A person sits at a table, in front of an Apple desktop computer. They are writing on a notebook. Next to the notebook, there is an open spiral bound book and a pair of headphones. At the forefront, part of an open laptop computer is visible, as well as a lit up box with several slide photographs set on top. At the back of the room, behind the person writing, there is a fridge and a jacket in a coat stand.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • A person sits at a table. In front of them, there are two small stacks of printed materials. They are wearing white gloves and handling one of the sheets of paper. Behind the person, there is a tall plant. To the left, there are 5 rows of photograph shelfs with photographs of green, natural settings.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • Two people sit across from each other at a long white table. They are both wearing white gloves and holding photographs, which they are looking at. There are photo envelopes on the table, a see-through plastic bag and a round white plate with two stars and a word written in black. At the back of the room, there are several photographs on the wall. Behind them, there is a large hand-painted word, which is not fully visible.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • On top of a white surface, there are several photographs and photo envelopes. The hands and arms of two people are visible. They are wearing white gloves and handling the pictures. One of them is putting a stack of photographs inside an envelope, and another touches one of the photographs on the table.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Radna Rumping.

  • A person sits on their heels. In front of them, there is an open storage box with a stack of A3 paper. The person is leaning towards this paper, looking down at it. They wear all black, glasses and a face mask.

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    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

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In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the ‘Gift Science Archive’, 1993–present was a two-month performative installation, which opened up painter and body artist Sands Murray-Wassink’s ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Alongside archive boxes, work table, and computer with the online database, the exhibition shared for the first time bodies of work and stacks of ephemera—including objects, documents, print materials, performance relics and more—dating back to 1993 when the artist began to develop his studio practice.

Visitors to In Good Company became researchers, invited to sit for hour-long visits amongst materials from the archive, to peruse the online database, and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look. The exhibition curators (Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, Huib Haye van der Werf), in turn, became archive managers hosting the research visits and on hand to share a story over a cup of tea. In this performance of ‘archive work,’ the research experience was set into relational motion by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice.

Murray Wassink’s exhibition formed part of the commission Gift Science Archive, which Hoetger led as part of the Edition VIII - Ritual and Display biennial program (2019-2021) for If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam. The project was co-produced with mistral, Amsterdam and Auto Italia, London with support from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. In Good Company was on view at mistral, Amsterdam 6 March - 9 May 2021, and was co-curated by Hoetger together with mistral co-directors Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf.

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