Enter Text Residency @ Arteles
Residency at Arteles with a focus on text; trying out image and text combinations. Images of work in progress from the Open Studio Day.
Walking Up My Mountain
Always the same route - always the same mountain. Walking up my Mountain is a new series of works on paper based on, and inspired by the mountain of Lyderhorn; and the mix of new ideas and old memories these walks always seem to inspire.
Lyderhorn is one of the 7 mountains of Bergen, an “official” witch mountain and the foot of the mountain is a 10 minute walk from where I grew up.
The Norwegian Mountain Code (Fjellvettsreglene) - gouache and grease pencil on Canson Photo Rag 310g Art Print
A Walk - gouache, nero pencil, colour pencil, pencil and typing on tracing paper
LIFE / About a House
Residency at No Pressure Project Space / Trash the House.
In June 2017 I spent one month as a resident at No Pressure Project Space; located at the Helmersstraat in The Hague.
The inspiration for the exhibition came from the masterpiece Life, A User’s Manual (1978) by Georges Perec.
The book is a tapestry of interwoven stories and ideas as well as literary and historical allusions, based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block. It was written according to a complex plan of constraints and is primarily constructed from several elements, each adding a layer of complexity (or so it says on wikipedia).
The exhibition was set up as an itinerary through time and focused on the sometimes weird life stories of a number of tenants, owners or events related to the house where the residency took place.
The six (major) artworks that highlight a person or an event were made (or constructed) with at least one of the following constraints (loosely based on the constraints as used by Perec to construct his novel) in mind:
A Graeco Latin square
A reference to an earlier work
A reference to work by another artist
A reference to something happening as the work was being made
A reference to something having to do with me
A list
A detailed description of every object and furniture in a room
Newspaper clippings or other documents
The Knight’s move
Clinamen
Association
Hints to a game or a puzzle
Pointing at each other or referencing each other
Kindly supported by Stroom
FAM
This ongoing Polaroid project on false autobiographical memory is a revisitation to places that hold certain memories of/from my childhood.
Enamel on Polaroid (2016 - )
In Transition
In Transition is a series of works based on (the memory of) a solitary journey that lasted 26 days. They are reflections on how an outsider views and interprets the places and landscapes (s)he happens to encounter. The photographs were taken on a solo cycling journey from The Hague to Barcelona in the summer of 2013 and have later been transformed with paint and ink, revealing a new alternative reality, balancing somewhere between fact and fiction.
Day 7, 15:05:32 / Day 8, 16:27:59 / Day 24, 13:00:49 / Day 8, 16:53:55 / Installation view