Research into archeological traces of weaving in Norway and Egypt. The two projects fused into the making of several pieces. The research into ancient Egyptian textiles at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is combined with a study of Scandinavian weaving fragments during an artist’s residency in Norway. The resulting pieces are an entanglement of the ancient Egyptian ritual of shrouding the dead and the discovery at archeological digs of two rows of evenly shaped stones. Weaving stones signified the place where once a loom stood.
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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.
