Solo exhibition at Motive Gallery, Amsterdam 2005
Picture above showing “Passing Through II”
For my exhibition “The Container and The Contained” I explored incidents from the previous winter. In January 2004 four people in my close proximity were hospitalized for various reasons. For example, my girlfriend’s brother, a US soldier, suffered immediate consequences of the war in Iraq as he was injured in a mortar attack, while my father was battling a chronic disease. The room-filling installation of empty cardboard boxes and a disused mantelpiece articulated thoughts about our mortality.
Installation views, detail on right showing “Man Studying The Blueprint”
Four photos (“Still Life I-IV”) showing arrangements of drinking glasses wrapped in newspaper illustrated how the public (media, war reports) continuously intrudes on the private. These photos functioned as four portraits of fragile bodies being comforted and protected by the misery of others. In the basement of the gallery a video (“North”) took the viewer on a nocturnal trek through a snow-covered forest, lit only by a miner’s lamp. The video suggested a quest for something untarnished and innocent, as the only marks in the thick snow were made by deer, rabbit and lynx.
“North”, DVD, 22.00 min