Our current era is marked by a series of global crises. Compared to two decades ago, everything suddenly feels closer to home, thanks in part to social media. While despair lurks just around the corner, there is still a collective effort to foster hope and find solutions to heal both the world and ourselves.
RESET is an exhibition featuring works by Delic & Huda, Josèfa Ntjam, and Yussef Agbo-Ola in the “cloud” at Museum de Fundatie. To help visitors recover from the fast pace of everyday life, Delic & Huda’s Recharge offers an immersive experience designed to recharge visitors in a dome filled with captivating video and sound. In a hypnotic audiovisual performance, they aim to calm visitors’ nervous systems through the use of scientific techniques. The University of Groningen is conducting research into the impact of ReCharge. Josèfa Ntjam explores the idea of resistance as a crucial tool for envisioning a better future. She does this through a presentation that interweaves mythological and natural elements using sound, poetry, video, installations, and sculptures. Yussef Agbo-Ola invites the public into an altar-like installation featuring sound and scent to reflect on the invisible role plants play in restoring human mental balance.
RESET offers a journey of transformation of states of mind and gives visitors the opportunity to seek new connections with themselves and others. Discover a place where art becomes a refuge, offering new perspectives on our lives and renewed hope for the present and the future.
Delic & Huda
Delic & Huda is a self-taught artistic duo that releases multidisciplinary projects on their own label, combining storytelling, music, and audiovisual art to transport their audience beyond the everyday.
Delic (Peter Blom, 1981) is a music producer, mixing engineer, writer, and painter. His work reflects his interest in metaphysics and the potential of the human mind, and he seeks a connection with the immortal through “enchantment through aesthetics.” He gained fame with the hip-hop group Opgezwolle and has won various awards, including the Zilveren Harp and multiple 3FM State Awards for Best Producer. His visual art has been exhibited at venues including the Van Gogh Museum and Art’Otel Amsterdam.
Huda Blom (1983) is a singer and creative director from Maastricht. She combines music, visuals, and storytelling to transport the audience to a magical world. With her background in psychology, the effect of her work on the audience plays a crucial role. Central to her work are themes surrounding breaking through generational trauma and inherited behavioral patterns. Her voice has been compared to Beth Gibbons of Portishead and Patti Smith.
In 2018, Delic & Huda released “Kidnap At The Noodle Shop,” launching it with a live show at De Melkweg and a solo exhibition at the GO Gallery. In 2020, they participated in the Berlin Music Festival with the music video “Rise Up” ft. Benjamin Herman and released the EP “Behind The Curtain” with Ziggi Recado. In 2021, the album “Lone Wolf” was released, launched during ADE live at De Melkweg.
With Recharge, an immersive experience in a dome filled with captivating video and sound, Delic & Huda help you recharge and recover from the pace of an ever-accelerating world. In a hypnotic audiovisual performance, they focus on calming visitors’ nervous systems through the use of scientific techniques. The University of Groningen is conducting research on the impact of ReCharge.
Josèfa Ntjam
Josèfa Ntjam (born 1992 in Metz, France) currently lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France. She is an artist, performer, and writer who combines sculpture, photomontage, film, and sound. Ntjam gathers her material from the internet, from books on the natural sciences, and from photographic archives. She uses the method of assemblage—of images, words, sounds, and stories—to unravel dominant notions of origin, identity, and race. In her work, she weaves together various narratives based on research into historical events, science fiction, and philosophical concepts. She combines these with references to African mythology, ancestral rituals, and religious symbolism.
Ntjam’s solo and duo exhibitions include the Biennale Arte di Venezia 2024 (side event) with LAS Foundation, Berlin, DE; LVMH Métiers d’Art, Paris, FR; Fotografiska, New York, US (2024); Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, FR (2023); N?COLETT?, London, UK (2023); Mação, Portugal (2023); FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK (2022–23); Centre Pompidou Metz, FR (2022); The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2022); CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, FR (2022); and Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, NO (2019).
Yussef Agbo-Ola
Yussef Agbo-Ola (b. 1990, Newport News, Virginia, United States) is an artist and medicinal architect who lives in London, Lagos, and the Amazon rainforest.
Born in a rural area of Virginia into a household with mixed Nigerian, African American, and Cherokee heritage, his work reflects hybrid identities. It engages with diverse landscapes, ecology, and cultural rituals. Agbo-Ola’s multidisciplinary artistic practice focuses on interpreting natural energy systems through interactive experiments. His work manifests as architectural temples, photojournalism, material alchemy, interactive performance, experimental sound design, and conceptual texts.
Agbo-Ola holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London and a Master of Architecture from the Royal College of Art. He has led art and architecture commissions for the United Nations, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Serpentine Gallery London, Van Abbemuseum, TEDx East End, BBC Arts, Museum Folkwang, Venice Architecture Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Tai Kwun Arts Center, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, and Lexus Automotive Innovation Centre Japan, among others. Agbo-Ola is an adjunct assistant professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where he leads an experimental design studio called The Art of Poetic Environmental Architecture.
RESET is part of the Fundatie Future Factory, the laboratory of Museum de Fundatie. Here, multidisciplinary creators explore the pulse of our times. What themes will shape the future?