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Un/folding Interventions is an ongoing, research-driven presentation by artist-in residency in the archive of De Appel, Arefeh Riahi. The presentation unfolds in the format of daily actions, archive gatherings with event-based performances, as well as an ongoing yet constantly changing exhibition.

Each intervention marks a pivot in a conversation between the archival site and a specially produced multifaceted, self-enclosing folding object, the construction of which is based on the template of a cube with additional surfaces and folds. This object — a body, a box, a book, a folder, a container, a component, a space that is archiving itself — will be in residence in the archive of De Appel for two months, to be folded and unfolded, existing as an anarchival agent within the archive.

Through its multiple interpositions, enabled by intervening bodies — the artist, the archivist, guests and visitors of the archive — the object engages with the surrounding archival materials, structures and space. By testing the limits of its capacity to extend, contract, recoil its limbs and re-orientate its axis, the object rearranges the existing archival system. It insists on interruptions, suggests new associations and chronologies, and re-routes the space’s flow of movement.