Traces Of Meaning

2013-2015 Spuren der Bedeutung / Traces de Sens / Traces Of Meaning This project is based on a work also shown in the exhibition in  L’humain laisse une trace de sens / Man Leaves A Traces Of Meaning. I asked my children to walk back and forth, on two separate sheets of paper, telling them to…

I Walk Therefore I Am

2013-2015 I Walk Therefore I Am – Drawing As Performance. The work is a photoprint, the image is the document of a performance. I walk along a paper path which moments ago seems to have unrolled by itself. My feet leave black traces of charcoal, the location is the Old Court at Bergen. René Descartes,…

Faith Fear Face

2012 Faith Fear Face In the police files these three words appear often. It’s about loss of faith, fear, losing face; if people have gone to another country and are exploited, have to survive through crime or prostitution, they cannot ever go back. Losing your face. The structural elements in this installation are shadow projections…

Body Scan

2012 Body Scan (studies for Faith Fear Face) Because of Container (2005) I was asked to do a project about people who try to flee towards a better future by hiding in containers transported by lorries and ships. Sometimes this ends in disaster, like the 58 Chinese who died in 2000 trying to reach the…

Les Ballets Russes

2012 Les Ballets Russes The title comes from the text Rob Scholte wrote to accompany this video. He drew my attention to an aspect I had not noticed: in a way it is unconventional and controversial what these kids do because of the pureness of their movements. Being adults we would not be able to…