AMSTERDAM.- WHAT REMAINS brings together two artists who confront the paradox of preservation in an age of disposable culture. Through bronze sculptures that oscillate between familiar objects and ambiguous forms, they speculate on how future generations might view our present. Projectspace 38.40 is transformed into a preserved site, draped in plastic, where future relics are laid out for study. What do these objects and their metamorphosis reveal about our commodified world? Bronze, long the material of monuments, immortalising objects and historical figures. Here, both artists subvert that tradition, instead working with objects that arguably exist outside this realm of adornment, connected to labor, consumption, and utility.

Tild Greene presents a series of sculptural works titled Toil. Some works are cast entirely in solid bronze, while others are precise pairings of bronze and non-bronze prefabricated components. Through this, Greene considers ownership and how value is assigned. Tactile junctures, points of attachment, and direction are used to question production and lineage. Not all components are fixed but balanced, stretched, or loosely arranged in tension with one another. In this way, the work playfully probes our desire for permanence.

Folkert de Jong’s sculptures cast familiar disposable objects and unsettling hybrids in bronze. From figurative fragments to coffee cups, weapons and boats, these works become grotesque prophecies, their weight mocking post-war dreams of endless growth while outlasting us all. He critically revisits symbols that were once sources of pride and power when first invented. De Jong’s alchemical transformation of ephemera into enduring intimate monuments mirrors society's own conflicted relationship with value and waste.

Installed in Projectspace 38.40, the bronze or semi-bronze works transform the gallery into a space of quiet reflection. WHAT REMAINS meditates on legacy, questioning what we cling to, what we discard, and the power dynamics hidden in those choices. Does value shift when mass-produced objects are cast in bronze? Is their place in the hierarchy of preservation upended? In a world torn between innovation and nostalgia, the exhibition explores what truly deserves permanence, and who decides.

Folkert De Jong is a Dutch artist working in sculpture and installation. Through themes of violence, consumerism, and historical recurrence, he examines how societies memorialize power. His method transforms materials, from industrial foam to bronze, into grotesque relics that subvert their original purposes. De Jong’s
work distills the paradoxes of modernity, where technological ambition and cultural amnesia collide in forms both unsettling and darkly comic.

Tild Greene is a British artist primarily working in sculpture and writing. Through subjects of mythology, utility, class, grief, and gender, they consider categories and assumptions. Altering found objects like garments, sports equipment, and hardware through sculptural processes, Greene creates homemade tools reflecting the primal human need for achievement. Greene reconfigures assumed hierarchies, presenting sculptures that function as a body extension between bodies and the systems that shape them.