an ongoing project: changing installation made out of hand painted and hand torn life-size paper elements creating different sculptures.
Paper Sculpture II:
‘Rare Landscape’
on display at Boterhal _Hoorn_2026
The sculptural form seems to hide something beneath its surface, but what?
The shape resembles the remains of a piece of forest that long ago consisted of large trees.
The organically shaped surface also has associations with the spine and with organs such as the kidneys.
500 cm wide x 500 cm long x 190 cm high
wall- and free hanging paper sculptures by Josefien Alkema
drawings (left) by Annechien Verhey
a stop motion animated short film
Short synopsis:
After a lifetime of enjoying contact with others, dancing together and leaving a lot of traces, a pair of feet finds it increasingly difficult to understand the world around them, keeping up with the pace and connect. An initial feeling of despair and chaos turns into apathy. In the end there is silence.
Logline:
Two pairs of feet move in sync until one pair begins to struggle to keep up with the pace and slowly sinks into another, uncertain world.
HD / 4 min. 10 sec. (Quicktime and DCP)
world première: Eye Film Museum 2026
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 at 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 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).
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
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
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
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
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
