Shimmer’s programs have always been rhythmic, our exhibitions are layered over time, and we ‘fade’ artworks in and out. Often we see our activities as ‘scores’. Sequins will be the first time that we introduce artworks that have their own internal rhythms. What we imagine in the exhibition cycle is termed a ‘polyrhythm’, a movement in which multiple rhythms after time begin to syncopate together as a new fused rhythm. In Sequins, we have curated artworks and practices that work with ‘the rhythm’ in the broadest sense, and in doing so, celebrate difference as means of community-making. The program consists of different cycles, building, cresting and collapsing over the year.

Cycle 4 with Bik Van der Pol follows cycles by Heman Chong, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Sharmyn Cruz Rivera (cycle 3), Bea McMahon and Maaike Schoorel (cycle 2) and Kirstin Arndt, Mo Laudi, and Becket MWN (cycle 1).