installations

Shadowlands

installation in a former warehouse
Pakhuis Wilhelmina in Amsterdam

You usually do not recognize yourself on photographs of your earliest childhood years. You know: “that child is me, I was there”, but memories are missing.
If you try to move yourself into the world of childhood photos, you almost feel in the dark.

The installation “Shadowlands” reconstructs the world of early childhood photos and can be experienced as a strange landscape that is fairytale and ghostly at the same time.

(slide) projections, film, light, objects, paintings on paper and on fabric, dollhouse

So Here We Are

So Here we Are

installation for the contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst
in the Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam

The installation, created especially for this project, marks the transition area between outside (the city) and inside (the dance floor).

The audience walks through a spatial construction of painted, semi-transparent canvases.

Shadows of spectators merge with painted human figures through the use of light.

The figures on the canvases seem to be involved in a fierce battle; both with themselves and each other, and with the painted environment in which they find themselves mirrored.

The painting is a choreography that has solidified over time.

The painting is made up of human figures that have been taken from observations during rehearsals by Conny Janssen Danst. All kinds of movements that can be seen in the periphery of the incipient rehearsal process, were forged into a baroque composition.

commissioned by contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst_Rotterdam_NL

9 panels hand painted on both sides
size 740 cm x 200 cm
height: 370 cm

Totentanz

‘Danse Macabre’
installation in the Anatomical Institute in Cologne, Germany.

In this Anatomical Institute life and death come together in one building.
On a photo of an allegedly killed soldier, by Robert Capa (from 1936), life and death come together in one image.
Retrieved from its original context, multiplied and mirrored, this figure seems to refer more to a modern dance choreography than to a war scene.

A painted imaginary background map refers to the earthly approach of dead in anatomical research.

The placement on the ceiling, on the other hand, refers to fresco paintings in which often the heavenly determines the atmosphere.

1 m x 14 m, hand painted and mixed techniques on canvas and plastic

De afgeknipte schaduw

De afgeknipte Schaduw

The cutt-off Shadow
installation in the surgical building of the former Burgerziekenhuis in Amsterdam

As forest giants, figures hang freely in the space and form a company.
Forced by the space in which they are together, there arise relations to each other, although the figures are individually different and isolated.

15 x [320 cm x 100 cm] ink and resin on paper