Billytown

Melle de Boer makes paintings, drawings and etchings in which repetition, chance and mistakes play an important role. Drawing on his own experience of stuttering, he explores how something often seen as a limitation can also open up new possibilities.

“Why does nobody ever say: you stutter beautifully?”

Stuttering is almost always heard as something that needs to be corrected, reduced or hidden. The exhibition explores how memories and learned responses become embedded in the body, and what happens when we make room for them instead.