NETHERLANDS NETHERLANDS ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE Museumpark 25 3015 CB Rotterdam Telephone +31(0)10 440 12 00 Fax +31(0)10 436 69 75 info@nai.nl www.nai.nl LIVING IN THE LOWLANDS: THE DOMESTIC SCENE IN THE NAI COLLECTION Permanent exhibition in Gallery 2 The NAI has one of the world's most important collections of archives of architecture, interiors, landscape architecture and urban planning. The permanent exhibition Living in the Lowlands reveals the collection's wealth of drawings, models and photographs. The highlights of this national treasure paint a picture of domestic life in the Netherlands over the last 150 years. Ordinary Dutch architecture whose quality is unmatched anywhere in the world. GALLERY 3: NEST 23 – CINDY MALON 3 May - 29 June 2008 NEST is a gallery for solo presentations measuring 15m2, where every six weeks a different artist, architect or designer shows individual work. Starting May 3, Cindy Malon presents an ‘urban intervention’ on life in a Vinex housing estate. Cindy Malon (b. 1963) is a visual artist and graphic designer. She grew up in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio (USA). She is currently living and working in The Netherlands. Inspired by the nature of a materialistic consumer society and fascinated with architecture, urbanism, the media, manipulation of histories, social structures and their effect on the individual, her work raises questions about western society and life in general. In 2006, she engaged in a number of 'urban interventions' (photos and videos) to investigate how residents on the Leidsche Rijn Vinex housing estate in Utrecht identify with their surroundings and how architecture affects the way they live. The short film ‘The Waiting’ (4’49”) deploys fake cheerleaders to ventilate ideas about the making of history and the feeling of being tied to a place.