Opening Saturday 21 October 2023, 17:00-21:00
Exhibition on view until 31 October (open everyday 10:00-20:00)
Tabakshuis, Sarphatistraat 65, Amsterdam

The Dunkin Donuts ‘Munchkins’ are small round bites of dough that come in all kinds of flavours. First sold as ‘Donut Holes’ in the 70s, they were marketed as left overs from the removed centres of the doughnuts. As a child, I believed this story to be true, an ingenious way to reduce food waste, and as it turns out, it was.
Some time ago, I stood in a store holding a broken piece of their display that I wanted to take home with me, wondering if to take it would be an act of stealing, or if it would be possible to buy something that is not for sale. Can we buy the bone before the meat? With Hole Hold Whole, we attempt to celebrate the valuable waste, the discarded matter and the donut holes, and we cherish this absent space where nothing becomes something in a store that appears to sell everything.

Eleni Papazoglou is a Greek artist working with languages of value and exchange. With a background in graphic design, she uses instruction-led processes, subversion, cut & paste methods to make assemblages, performances, site specific interventions and books. They are a co-founder of the nomadic project space On Wheels, a space dedicated to exploring what it means to be in public, and they practice graphic design under the alias Call Your Friends. Eleni is a lecturer at the London College of Communication, UAL.

Eleni received a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Art and a MA (Hons) from the Royal College of Art. Previous exhibitions include Rear View [solo] at BIBLIOTEKA (London, 2023), How It Feels [site-specific] at SET (London, 2023) Prizing Eccentric Talent at P.E.T. Projects (Athens, 2022), I Love You Forever [site-specific] (Athens, 2022) Collective Display of Affection at Camden Arts Center (London, 2022), Head2Head at KEIV (Athens, 2021), Squeezebox at Collective Ending (London, 2021).

Tabakshuis is a corner shop that sells convenient products, cold drinks, cigarettes, newspapers and stationery items. Many thanks to the owner Buick Ismaili for hosting us. reclame 6 is kindly supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.