WHAT REMAINS brings together two artists who confront the paradox of preservation in an age of disposable culture. Through bronze sculptures that oscillate between artifact and organic form, the exhibition asks what endures when technological progress and societal collapse race toward the same horizon.

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Bronze has long been the material of monuments, meant to immortalize heroes and histories. Yet here, it captures the mundane: objects of labor, consumption, and fleeting utility. Greene's works, inspired by Amsterdam-Noord's peat industry, draw parallels between bronze casting and peat extraction, with selected objects referencing attachment, release, fragility and endurance abstracted through composition and placement. Similarly, Folkert de Jong's bronze sculptures immortalize disposable objects and unsettling hybrids, freezing consumer relics in permanent metal to confront our faith in progress. These works, from guns to coffee cups, become grotesque prophecies, their weight mocking post war dreams of endless growth while outlasting us all.

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Set within Projectspace 38.40, the installation of bronze works transforms the gallery into a space of quiet reckoning. Industrial forms dissolve into biological shapes; tools meant to dominate nature are reclaimed by it. WHAT REMAINS offers a clear-eyed meditation on legacy. It questions what we cling to, what we discard, and the power dynamics hidden in those choices. In a world obsessed with both innovation and nostalgia, this exhibition invites us to question what truly deserves permanence, and who decides.

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