Protocols and Other Formal Agreements was Dina Danish’s first solo museum exhibition in the Netherlands, presented at Museum Rijswijk and curated by Julia Geerlings. The exhibition brought together works from over fifteen years of practice, spanning paper, video, and textile. Alongside older works exploring miscommunication through language—tongue twisters, chewing gum, and repeated texts—newer pieces focused on the fixed choreography of world leaders signing agreements or shaking hands in front of the press. These fleeting, standardized images were translated into large textile banners, produced with Cairo’s khayamiya tentmakers, whose meticulous craft contrasts with the uniformity of the scenes depicted.
Placed in dialogue with the museum’s historical collections, including the Peace of Rijswijk (1697) and the writings of Hendrik Tollens, the exhibition situated both strands of Danish’s work within a longer history of agreements, language, and display.