The concept of containers relates to their myriad functions, i.e. to hide and to carry: Egyptian mummies, swaddling the remains in herringbone patterns, metal containers hiding refugees or plastic bags and jute sacks to carry the life-support of nomads. On another scale in anatomical structures like a ribcage, pouches and an amniotic sack the structures protect, connect and merge with other structures, but can be permeable at the same time.
Containers
How to weave a book
On show 1.5. .- 25.5.2025 at NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
‘How to weave a book?’ addresses the mystery of visual memory and it’s taking shape in art. The installation is made with vintage material, re-purposed tools from weaving workshops, images from a personal archive . In collaboration with book designer Gersande Schellinx, a weaving was created about contemporary sculpture and 20th century industrial steel constructions and about the perpetual, material nature and meanings of weaving.
+ Can a weaver be a nomad?
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.
