Work / Projects
2011
Heden, The Hague
2011
Hardcover
edition: 300 (1 unique work inside)
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Design: Adriaan Mellegers & Karen van de Kraats
Hotel Insomnia Publications 2011
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2011
Almere, The Netherlands
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
Billytown, The Hague
Lotte Geeven en Marjolijn de Wit. i.s.m. Marchel Ruygrok
2010
Cold Origami refers to the power of line. Thinking as a drawer, the line dictates the shape of thought for Lotte Geeven (1980). In this exhibition with new large-scale drawings and installations; the line folds an interior, breaks a grand mountain panorama and maps routes through strange cities and foreign landscapes. In its’ ambiguous character it explores the mechanism of memory of another place at another moment.
2009
Installation, Rijksakademie Amsterdam
2009
2010
Lokaal 01 Breda
2010
de bunker/ galerie west, The Hague
2010
Now at Art Amsterdam, assigned by Kunstbeeld
2009
2008
Installation, Rijksakademie Amsterdam
The pipelines buzz and tick, feet click-clack over the floor and soft growling sound of a the city below crawls over the façade, glides over the windowsill, gently moves her way over the wallpaper onto the warm floor where it scatters into the exact measurements of the room. A sudden silence drops. I am standing in the threshold. Left foot left of the axis, right foot right of the axis of the perfect symmetrical room. If I'll move an inch, the room, the floor, the table the carpet and me will shift out of plumb.
As a temporary refuge, Room 02 is a zone in a state of flux where ephemeral sceneries from another room in another city are hauled in through the windows and coated, as a brief extra layer, in the space. It acts as a place where small memories take a passing shelter in the lee of bricks, carpet, floor and pipelines. In this gathering of seemingly unimportant background details, a dismantled and reconstructed blueprint of a fleeting state has been concealed. It behaves according to the concrete logic of repetitive patterns and shapes of everyday things where nothing is what is appear to be. (Room 02 is the third part of Hotel Insomnia, an ongoing project started in 2007 evolving around a maquette of an imaginary empty hotel.)
2010
Lokaal 01 Breda
2009
2008
A series of photographs and installations
2007
Mart House, Amsterdam
To research and map the border-area between me and the place I am staying, I stayed as artist-in-residence in New York and Xiamen questioning whether I would be someone else somewhere else, or look if perhaps identity and location would appear to be exchangeable ideas.
In search for an answer, I deliberately got lost, jump from bus to bus, ended op in the outskirts and found my way back home with my eyes and ears wide open. On site, I collected and systematically jotted down personal observations of the cityscape: fractions of conversations, a blossoming magnolia under a window, subtle changes in the colour of the sky above the city, the sound of rain in a park: poetical ornaments that are everywhere but define the character of their domain in the way they appear to me. These seemingly unimportant background sceneries enclosed the dialect of the location and formed scattered
landmarks of the border-area between the city and me. In Hotel Insomnia, with a series of drawings, light boxes and installations, I carefully reconstructed them as marks to another place that moved with me from one city to the other.
2006 – 2008
Ongoing series of large drawings and installations
A backyard as a laboratory for background details that grow into each other in layers on the paper. The area has a distinct set of conditions in which plants, animals and thoughts, that are copied, mirrored and researched, live in a geometrical repetitions in wallpapers, carpets and paper, in the way that nature fills up empty spaces as if she fears it.
Xiamen, China / CEAC
2006
I drew an invisible seam around my territory in a strange city. A pink line around the block, so I don’t fade.
The homebrewed perfume is a reconstruction of the smell of the house I lived in. Ingredients: Spices, hibiscus, roasted garlic, detergent, magnolia, sesame oil & seaweed.
2006
New York City / Point B Work lodge
By adding an extra layer of my rendered notes into the city itself I created a brief meeting between the two worlds. Thousands of bird species cut out from the New York Times move as a coloured swarm cloud through small alleyways and over the pavement. With New York City as a decor on the background, they map the route of the wind.
installation
SHELL building / N - Building / Gallery Germinahof
In a desire to understand the world I collected encyclopaedically reproductions of cities, animals, plants and maps; a grid of images in which the complexity of things was reduced to a human scale. From a bird’s eye view I soared above this field, registering it in the form of drawings, objects and installations researching the ravelled outskirts of this area in search for new land. Looking for ways to reveal these hidden lands, without actually showing them, I created clouds of images that, rather than reveal, refer to this unseen domain of order. The world rebuilt in the clear form language of biology books as
my own models of attempt.
