Until 31 January 2024, the exhibition ‘If these walls could speak’ is on display in the so-called VOC-Hall in the UvA’s Bushuis. Contemporary artists and documentary film makers have collectively converted this historically charged room into an exhibition space, inviting reflection on its past, present and future. Dean Marieke de Goede speaks with two of the artists who contributed to the exhibition: Farren van Wyk and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno.