The Same Room 2023 digital 4K color video, 16:9, stereo sound 6 min 43 second loop The Same Room, installation view, Annet Gelink Gallery, Art Island, Ijmuiden, 2023. Photo: Michel Claus.The Same Room, installation view, Bonnefanten Museum, 2022. Photo: Peter Cox.The Same Room, installation view, Bonnefanten Museum, 2022. Photo: Peter Cox.
The Same Room, installation view, Bonnefanten Museum, 2022. Photo: Peter Cox.Bright Moonless Night 2022, gouache on cardboard, 24×31 cmBright Moonless Night, installation view, Bonnefanten Museum, 2022. Photo: Peter Cox.Constant Companion 2021-2022, installation, various materials, 273x330x230 cm. Installation View: Volkskrant Visual Art Prize, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL, 2022 photography Pauline NiksLeak, installation view, The 16th Biennale Lyon, Jeune Création Internationale, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR, 2022. Photo: Blandine Soulage.Leak, installation view, The 16th Biennale Lyon, Jeune Création Internationale, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR, 2022. Photo: Blandine Soulage.Leak, installation view, The 16th Biennale Lyon, Jeune Création Internationale, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR, 2022. Photo: Blandine Soulage.Leak, installation view, The 16th Biennale Lyon, Jeune Création Internationale, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR, 2022. Photo: Blandine Soulage.Leak 2020 digital HD video, 4:3, color, sound 3 minute 2 second loopInstallation View: They Won’t Stand Time, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS, 2022 photography Vigfus BirgissonInstallation View: They Won’t Stand Time, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS, 2022 photography Vigfus BirgissonInstallation View: Scenes, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2022 photography Michel Claus Sun Is Coming Down 2020 / gouache on cardboard / 18×22 cmMoon Rising 2020 / gouache on cardboard / 29×21 cm Fabulator 2022, airco-unit blowing smoke rings / 60x30x80 cm / computer automated mechanism Installation View: Welcome Stranger, Amsterdam, NL, 2022 photography Fabian Landewee Installation View: Art Rotterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, NL, 2022 Untitled 2021 / gouache on cardboard / 23 x20 cmSignifier 2022 / gouache on cardboard / 14×20 cmTotem (I) 2021 / gouache on cardboard / 18×27 cmContainer 2021 / gouache on cardboard / 14×17 cmTotem (II) 2021 / gouache on cardboard / 16×21 cmConstant Companion Installation View: Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam NL, 2022Constant Companion Installation View: Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam NL, 2022Constant Companion Installation View: Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam NL, 2022Constant Companion, installation view, Fabulous Facts, True Fictions, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, 2022. Photo: Maarten NauwConstant Companion 2021 / 273x330x230 cm / various materials Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Constant Companion Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021
This video-installation brings forth the mythological figure of the Raven as its main protagonist. The Raven is used as a leitmotif to speculate about architectural concepts like Stone Tape Theory and Place Memory. Both these concepts hold the idea that some buildings are receptive to the energy produced by traumatic or emotional events, which they record and store. ‘In the history of arts and popular culture, the raven is a well-known symbol. The dark bird often appears as an omen, a messenger of misfortune, or as an embodiment of spirits from the afterlife. Its disturbing indoor presence shines another light on the domestic environment. Home, supposedly a place of shelter, safety, and comfort, is transformed into an uncanny stage, tainted by decay, haunted by trauma’. –Text by Dominic van den Boogerd
Constant Companion Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021 Constant Companion Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021 Constant Companion Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021 Place Memory 2021, various materials, metal frame, 190x125x81 cm Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Place Memory 2021, various materials, metal frame, 190x125x81 cm Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Place Memory 2021, various materials, metal frame, 190x125x81 cm Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Quiet World 2020, gouache on cardboard, 23×30 cmQuiet World 2020, gouache on cardboard, 23×30 cm Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Crow’s Funeral 2021, gouache on cardboard, 30×20 cmCrow’s Funeral 2021, gouache on cardboard, 30×20 cm Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Constant Companion 2021, 4K Video, 16:9, color, stereo, 7.48 min cycle Installation View: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL, 2021Constant Companion 2021, 4K Video, 16:9, color, stereo, 7.48 min cycle
Produced with support of Dommering Foundation
Credits Starring: Nanja Camera: Joao Costa Camera Assistance: Stína Erlingsdóttir Production Assistance: Clémence Lollia Hilaire Second eyes and Editing: Jacob Dwyer Color Grading: Mayis Rukel Sound design & mix: Jacob Oostra Foley: Daimo Da Costa
Special thanks to: Wouter Mom, Piotr Urbaniec, Tirza Kater, Caroline Brand
Leak shows a destabilisation of a state, seen through the material cycle of evaporation and (dis-)appearance. The installation that houses the film resembles something akin to a weather beaten electrical box, with water damaged panels and sputtering and rusted air conditioning units. The borrowed language of commonly seen and apparently functional containers is subverted and implied a seemingly functional space broken and discarded. Inside, a video portrays an unpredictable body of water whose shifting and uncontrollable state seems to have prevented a disaster from being averted. The towels left lying there, as if hastily abandoned, underscore the absence of water – whose traces, by contrast, will never entirely disappear. Text by Fabian Schoneich
Rack (I) & Rack (II) 2020 / various dimensions / laundry rack, glazed ceramics, acrylcast, metal wire Installation View: De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, 2020Rack (I) 2020 / various dimensions / laundry rack, glazed ceramics, acrylcast, metal wire Installation View: De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, 2020Rack (II) 2020 / various dimensions / laundry rack, glazed ceramics, metal wire Installation View: De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, 2020Rack (III) 2020 / various dimensions / laundry rack, acrylcast, pigments Installation View: De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, 2020
Locked 2020, acrylcast of electricity lock, pigment, 30 x 25 cm Installation View: Left Laundry, Amsterdam, NL, 2020
Left Laundry was a group show curated by Gustav Wideberg that took place in the densely vegetated no man’s land nestled in between the Schellingwouderbrug and the A10 on the North side of Amsterdam. The persistent and attentive exporer-visitor was able to discover faux-archeological digs, sudden bursts of goblin-poetry, exquisitely crafted branch sculptures and a text-guided raft.
With CECILIA BJARTMAR HYLTA, JACOB DWYER, MATTIAS ELIASSON, MARY FURNISS, MONIKA JANULEVICIUTE, MINNE KERSTEN, BRIANNA LEATHERBURY, FAHMY SHAHIN, GIANNA SURANGKANJANAJAI, GUSTAV WIDEBERG, EMIEL ZENO
Loop 2019, cardboard, wood, radiator reflecting foil, ventilation grilles, light sources, dimensions variable Installation View: HISK Exhibition Space, Brussels, BE, 2022.Loop 2019, cardboard, wood, radiator reflecting foil, ventilation grilles, light sources, dimensions variable Installation View: HISK Exhibition Space, Brussels, BE, 2022.Loop 2019, cardboard, wood, radiator reflecting foil, ventilation grilles, light sources, dimensions variable Installation View: HISK Exhibition Space, Brussels, BE, 2022.The Burrow 2017, wood, various materials, print on carpet, 244 x 327 x 110 cm. Photo: Roos Quakernaat.The Burrow 2017, wood, various materials, print on carpet, 244 x 327 x 110 cm. Photo: Roos Quakernaat.The Burrow 2017, wood, various materials, print on carpet, 244 x 327 x 110 cm. Photo: Roos Quakernaat.Untitled (bathroom) 2016, wood, paint-mixture, dirty blankets, 120 x 50 x 50 cm HD video, 4:3, colour, stereo, 7 minute 23 second loop Untitled (bathroom) 2016, wood, paint-mixture, dirty blankets, 120 x 50 x 50 cm HD video, 4:3, colour, stereo, 7 minute 23 second loop