At NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam 1.5. - 25.5.
The container-series are primal forms; hesitating between functionality and autonomous form. Each aspect of materiality counts - weight, pliability, transparency or a concealing skin.
They refer to the fate of people who have to leave their home, refugees. What can you take with you in terms of material and non-material goods? What do you leave behind?
I weave on a CAD/CAM handloom with paper, horsehair, linnen and monofilament. A slow, manual process; carefully choosing material with specific expressiveness and searching for a form. The hand is the interface, the weaver is the protagonist of our time, especially in the experience of time itself.