During the Warmoes Biennale, artist Iriée Zamblé will present a new series of collages for the first time: Generational Muscle Memory. It consists of material from family archives and photographs she took during her travels. She then edited the images using painting and drawing techniques. The series explores invisible connections: behavior, feelings, and knowledge that are passed down from generation to generation.

Iriée Zamblé: "With this new work, I explore cultural continuity: what do you leave behind, what do you take with you, and what forms of knowledge do you carry with you without consciously learning them? What takes root in your body, posture, and instincts? The images I create depict both personal and collective memories." From a passport photo of my father, who left Ivory Coast for the Netherlands at the age of 27, to photos I took of working men in Gorée (Senegal), for centuries the largest center of the slave trade on the West African coast.

The Iriée Zamblé pavilion at Original Pancake is curated by the Rembrandthuis Museum, the place where Rembrandt lived and worked. Rembrandt undoubtedly frequented the neighborhood around Warmoesstraat, not far from his home, 400 years ago. As early as the seventeenth century, this was a place where you encountered people from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. You