You know it. I know it. She knows it, and he does too. And should anyone ask about it, then we know nothing. Everyone knows a public secret, but nobody officially knows. This region's visual culture is also such a public secret. What are the specific images with which we identify? The group exhibition Public Secretsprovides the first impetus for a sample of this region's current visual culture. Image, imaging, and image culture have a relationship to, even an unprecedented grip on, our Self-image.

Architecture is solidified history. Architecture primarily provides protection, but it also gives cultural expression to the prevailing Zeitgeist. We recognise our Self in our surroundings – it is our house, our street, our city, and our region with which we identify. However, from the city to the landscape, we are not always aware of the codes and power structures, visual or otherwise (e.g. material, religion, cultural, gender, different ethnic backgrounds), embedded in our designed environment. Public Secrets is an intuitive exploration of the local landscape and presents works that identify and interpret historical traces in the present.

Sara Bachour i.s.m. Gladys Zeevaarders, Dear Hunter, Janneke Janssen, Tineke Kambier, Chris Keulen, Chaim van Luit, George Meijers, Tanja Ritterbex, Johannes Schwartz, Nic.Tummers, Michiel Ubels & Mike Moonen and Kim Zwarts

Special guest: Ken Knabb