Microreview: In a hat

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Talker #16 by Giles Bailey featuring a conversation with Martín La Roche. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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Martín La Roche presenting his Musée Légitime. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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An artwork from the museum’s collection. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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A story entering the collection. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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Art handling by the museum’s director. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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Musée Légitime. Photo courtesy Jake Caleb @foto_jakecaleb
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Talker #16 centrefold with Musée Légitime presentation.
Date
2026 April
Subtitle
Jake Caleb reviews 10 years of Talker! and the launch of Talker#16, featuring live performances by Giles Bailey and Martín La Roche, at PrintRoom Rotterdam, Friday 27 March.
Type
microreview
Author / Publisher
Jake Caleb for NewsLibrary
Guest Editor

Nienke Terpsma

Reviewer

Jake Caleb is an artist based in Rotterdam. He formalises his artistic research through exhibition making, hosting events and organising initiatives. He also works as a photographer for (a.o.) PrintRoom.

@_jakecaleb

Publication Language

English

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Newsletter No. 77

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Reviewed Publication

Talker is an interview zine about performance by artist Giles Bailey. Since 2012 each issue publishes a long-form interview with an artist who works in an innovative way with live practice.

@worldissudden
 

Martín La Roche is a visual artist living in Amsterdam. His works often find their starting points from existing collections of objects and memories, archives as modes of storytelling which he reassembles into installations, performances or publications. He runs Musée Légitime

@martinlarochec

@goodneighbourbooks

Big, bigger, biggest ever. Rotterdam Art Week is the week when Rotterdam does Art. Everyone is sucked into its orbit: artists, venues, audiences. AAll eager to encounter Art with a capital A. Amidst the rush a few may ask themselves, is big really better? Particularly those at the PrintRoom on Friday night for the launch of Talker #16, an interview zine by Giles Bailey. For the launch, this edition’s interviewee Martín La Roche shared his Musée Légitime, a museum in a hat. With each tiny artwork contained within, came an anecdote for how it entered La Roche’s millinery collection. These tales bound intricately to the miniature objects themselves possessed their own profound pull, drawing the artist and the audience together. An interweaving of storytelling and public presentation that truly takes you, in La Roche’s own words, "beyond the performance and the art”.