serie 'I am'
These latest works are mainly about a theme that fascinates me: 'identity' The continuing strong need to be "someone" and thus "to be different" and at the same time the fear of exclusion. In these works I examine the material and immaterial dimension of identity.
dated 2016 until 2017
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My memories
2017Selected for the Chelsea International Fine Art Competion Exhibition 2020 taking place at Agora Gallery NewYork https://nyartcompetitions.com/cifac/results-2020/ '' My Memories'' was one of the 50 paintings nominated by the jury of the 'painting of the year 2017' competition
My garb
2017
Left behind
2016The expiration date of the latest mode determines the meaning of a worn out jeans A diptych which does not depend next to each other but each one to an opposite side. SOLD ITALIE
Right behind
2016A diptych which does not depend next to each other but each one to an opposite side. SOLD ( ITALIE)
The Blues
2016We identify ourselves with brands. In this work, I associate these brands with their ephemerality. V&D was an established department store In the society . The department store was founded in 1887 in the Netherlands, a brand you grew up with: something you expect it is always there and always will be. Only on December 31, 2015 the chain went bankrupt. The popularity of this typical Dutch department store decreased. The brand was increasingly seen as old-fashioned, out dated but once the bankruptcy had taken place, buying the last pants and blouses led to feelings of melancholy and mourning at staff and customers: the blues of V & D
Blue Jeans
2016
Symbol for freedom and rebellion?
The temporary nature of the symbolism of 'freedom' and identity.
A brand is and was decisive for the group with which you identified
Were you a 'Lee', a 'Wrangler' or a 'Levi's'?
Or do you not even know anymore what this actually meant because you are from another generation?
'blue jeans' belonged to the 50 nominees by the jury of the contest 'painting of the year 2016'
'Lost identity?'
2017The white flag is at the same time neutral in terms of identity, but also symbolizes surrender as opposed to the struggle that apparently belongs to identity that does not want to be 'neutral'. The irony is that in white all colors are hidden without any struggle. Soldiers who showing a white flag in their hand should not be attacked. One expects a person wearing the white flag to remain neutral and obliged not to enter into warfare. The white flag is known as a sign of surrender. For example, Islam means literally "surrender to God." Surrender as a counterpart of separation and distinction. The colored flag and even the black flag create an 'own' identity and forms a means of binding a people, a group and symbolically distinguishing them from others. As soon as there is a fear of loss of identity, there is a need to preserve identity and identifications become more important See also the "je suis Charlie" which was massively deployed Facebook (on the photo and profile picture in the colors of the French flag). A kind of symbolic identification with the victims who would stand for freedom, and the shared sense of the threat of losing freedom and a protest and a fight for its preservation. I see this reaction as a part of the spirit which focuses strongly the fear of losing identity and freedom.