PAGE NOT FOUND - The hague

To celebrate “splashdown tender”, afra eisma’s (https://afraeisma.com) new artist book published by Page Not Found, the artist has conceived a solo exhibition titled “ soft conversations ”. Through a deconstructed studio setting, eisma invites visitors to settle into a colorful fusion of textile works. The exhibition runs from September 25 through November 2, 2025. Building on her immersive practice, “ soft conversations ” takes a rare, inward turn: inviting visitors into the studio-like environment where works, sketches, and inspirations coexist without hierarchy. Here the artist opens the door to the intimate, generative world of her studio: a place where works don’t stand alone, but breathe alongside the images, objects, texts, and textures that inspire them. Visitors are invited into this inner kingdom, where the boundaries between artworks and their conditions of emergence blur. isma’s textile, ceramic, and embroidered works often welcome viewers with colour and tactility—offering places to sit, rest, and touch. Yet this softness is never neutral: it is wielded as a method of resistance. The installations encourage lingering, slowness, and exchange. They make room for vulnerability without flattening its complexity. In “ soft conversations ”, this method unfolds even further. To quote Page Not Found’s artistic director Ola Vasiljeva: “This exhibition is less about presenting discrete works than about extending an invitation: to enter a zone where artistic processes are not hidden away but remain visible, entangled, gestating.”

We are excited to announce our fourth Open Letter of 2025. This edition features a letter by Daisy Madden-Wells, titled A Spore Spat Across The Star-Way. It opens on Wednesday 1 October. To activate the letter she will organise an evening filled with poetry on 22 October at 17:30. Lena Longefay and Alejandra López will prepare a selection of cookies inspired by the recipes of Hildegard von Bingen the 12th-century mystic. Each cookie is designed to evoke or encourage different states of being—such as warmth, coolness, or passion—and the chosen poems will be inspired by these same qualities. Together, the readings and the tastes will form a playful dialogue between text, flavour, and emotion. Drawing from her research into apocalyptic verse, Daisy’s letter speaks to the fractured moment in which we find ourselves. Zooming out and then in, from the dance of the cosmos to a single footstep, she seeks to offer a moment of respite through a poem (that can double as a clapping-game if needed). The imagery itself is inspired by the illuminated writings of William Blake—the sun/star/spore emerging from the depths of heavy cloud, a dogged optimism.