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paper sculptures

an ongoing project: changing installation made out of hand painted and hand torn life-size paper elements creating different sculptures.

Paper Sculpture I : ‘The Elephant in the Room’ _ on display in WG Kunst_exhibitionspace in a former hospital in Amsterdam_NL_2025

250 cm high x 300 cm wide x 40 cm

The sculptural form seems to hide something beneath its surface, but what?

The organically shaped surface also has associations with the spine and with organs such as the kidneys.

The expression “the elephant in the room” is a metaphorical idiom for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss (because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is personally, socially, or politically embarrassing, controversial, inflammatory, or even dangerous).

Urban Oasis paper installation

an ongoing project: changing and evergrowing installation made out of hand painted and hand torn life-size paper elements creating an environmental sculpture.

image 1/2/3: ‘Urban Oasis III’ on display in former ‘Bagagehal’ KNSM_Loods6_ Amsterdam_NL_2024

image 4/5: ‘Urban Oasis II’ on display in a former waiting room at a platform of NS Railway Station Amsterdam RAI_NL_2024

image 6 : ‘Urban Oasis I’ on display in Kunsthal45_Den Helder_NL_2023

Oasis drawings

Photographic detail shots of my installation ‘Urban Oasis’ serve as a background for these drawings.

‘Oasis’ is an ongoing series of drawings on paper: pigment ink and pastel on Photo Rag

ongoing: 2023_present

50 cm x 70 cm

40 cm x 30 cm

25 cm x 50 cm

15 cm x 20 cm

The Hourglass

installation De Zandloper / The Hourglass

A man seems to have been caught in an hourglass.

The hourglass is associated with the passage of time and symbolizes the transience of life. In art, it is a frequently used object in still life paintings (vanitas).

life size installation
paper and paint

installatie De Zandloper_Jacqueline Kooter

Forest Chapel

installation for a well cottage_PT

The wooded area enters a well cottage by using charcoal from the fireplace in the farmhouse.

The well cottage has a sacred atmosphere of itself with its oval shape.

Murganheira_Portugal

panoramic wall drawing, charcoal

measurements total drawing:
7.5 meters x 2.5 meters

World Reset

The film “World Reset” is a tribute to Alice Guy Blaché (France 1873- USA 1968), the first female film pioneer and film director in history. She made her first film in 1896 and her last around 1920.

Among the estimated 700 short films she directed, produced and/or wrote (most of which have been lost, except for about 76 pieces), is also the film “Falling Leaves” from 1912.

My video is a retelling of the 1912 film “Falling Leaves” by Alice Guy-Blaché. In my video, a woman performs a naïve but moving act in an absurd attempt to repair the overcrowded and therefore vulnerable world.

Visual artist and filmmaker Jaap de Ruig concluded from my video that ’the man’ is busy demolishing nature through his ruthless overactivity. In his response, he shows that men are just beasts, who return to earth over time and can then innocently sprout new life.

The result is a video diptych.

HD video diptych / 2 min. 29 sec.

première:

PlayRoom Art Gallery_Zaandam_NL_October 2021

stop motion animation

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Wetland

installation for Arti et Amicitiae_Amsterdam_NL

The spectator is in an area with strange crops over which an image of aqueous substance is projected.

The whole sphere is marshy and dystopian in nature as in the two films that are also part of the installation.

What’s in store for us?

material: paper, mirrors, projection, film

measurements total installation:
6 meters x 7 meters

photo’s 1,2,3 : Maarten Nauw

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bezoeker bij installatie Drasland_Jacqueline Kooter

World Landscape

Winding paths/rivers and atmospheric perspective are leading in my short film ”World Landscape“.

The grandeur of the landscape and the experience of traveling through a landscape are central. You move through the different layers of the film landscape. The distance is always shrouded in mist.

The landscape in the film is barren and apocalyptic in nature, as a reference to the times in which we now live (pandemic, climate change). But the tranquil landscape at the end of the film also offers room for new interpretation.

première: Cacaofabriek_Helmond_NL_07/06/2020
03:22 min. / loop
QuickTime HD
1920×1080
16:9

sound: Aline Bruijns / AudioRally Sounddesign

Faded

Our world is in danger of being lost over time; we humans do violence to it by the way we live. In addition, inner worlds are increasingly lost due to the decaying of the human spirit in the ever aging man.

Faded is a short film that can be seen as a metaphor to depict both these forms of loss. In this film Jacqueline Kooter’s handmade dollhouse from her childhood figures.

première: Kunsthal 45 Den Helder_27/10/2019
02:30 min. / loop
QuickTime HD
1920×1080
16:9

Dancing on a Volcano

In an unsafe world, a girl and a crane try to dance.

An animated short inspired by the story of the Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes have become a symbol for the longing for peace and a world without atomic weapons.

première:
online: Dutch Dance Festival October 4. 2020
on screen: EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Cinedans FEST_International Film Festival
NL_March. 2021

stop motion animation
4:40 min.
QuickTime HD / DCP
1920×1080
16:9

concept/camera/animation/editing:
Jacqueline Kooter

sound: Aline Bruijns / AudioRally Sounddesign

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