AMSTERDAM.- Farida Sedoc has taken over the mezzanine of the Stedelijk Museum’s new building with the monumental triptych Social Capital. Using photography, graphic design, textiles, and screen printing, Sedoc makes tangible how social capital provides direction and opens pathways toward a collective future. The work is commissioned by the Stedelijk as part of IN SITU, a series that invites a new generation of artists to experiment within one of the museum’s largest in-between spaces.

In Sedoc’s practice, intersectionality, the influence of the monetary economy, and heritage play an important role. She reflects on the times we live in and explores how images function within communities. Themes such as solidarity, migration, activism, and economic inequality converge in her work. Against this backdrop, the title Social Capital refers to the network of relationships and mutual trust that binds a community together.

In Social Capital, Farida Sedoc shows how shared goals connect people. Each of the three works is based on a group portrait from her personal archive, revealing the strength of collectivity and a shared sense of direction and belonging. Social Capital highlights the coming together of people, the exchange of values, and the ability to rely on one another within a community. The mezzanine of the Stedelijk offers space to this continual movement of groups—ever-changing in composition, yet carried by the environment that brings them together.

On 1 February, Farida Sedoc and curator Mirelva Berghout will engage in a public conversation during an Artist Talk.

Visual artist Farida Sedoc works across various media to visualize multi-voiced narratives. Drawing from protest movements, countercultures, and subcultures, she uses photography, graphic design, and screen printing techniques. Her work consistently engages with themes of cultural identity and the dynamic between heritage, politics, and economics, in relation to overarching historical events such as the transatlantic trade and the sociocultural dynamics that emerged from it. In 2024, she received the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts in the category Work of the Year for People’s Forum. Her work has been shown at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and W139 (Amsterdam). In 2020, the Stedelijk commissioned her to design a poster in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight against racism, which led to the acquisition of No Justice No Peace (2020). The works Lobi e Meki Yu Yeye Gro – Light (2021) and Lobi e Meki Yu Yeye Gro – Dark (2021) are also part of the museum’s collection and are currently on view in the collection presentation.