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Beholding

Beholding
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when
December 3, 2022 - January 1, 2023
where
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Beholding is a project about the wonder of looking. As a continuation of Fien Brakkees graduation work ‘a beginning’, she keeps on exploring the idea of resembleing a nothingness. In this work she plays around with light, shadow, movement and rythmn, to try and capture liminal space – somwhere in between it all, there where light touches shadow, where spaces becomes athmosphere, and where a void becomes something graspable. As always Fien is not really looking for answers, and through questioning she wonders:

Beholding is a project about the idea of an in-between space or a thin place. Spaces where the walls of the world feel a little weak, where all becoming nothing and the same. In this work Fien plays around with light, shadow and movement, to continues to try and resemble a nothingness – a space in which liminal athmosphere becomes something graspable. This work in process is a way for her to keep asking question about how we receive spaces that we might not see but feel and experience.

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Een close-up van blauw-witte geweven stof met een abstract, onregelmatig patroon van lijnen en golven.
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Isabela Verhagen

Since the heavy rainfalls flooded the streets of Valencia in 2024, I could not stop thinking about the images of the residents sweeping the muddy streets. Amid the enormous amounts of mud and water, the act of sweeping seemed futile. These pictures conveyed a clear message: people are trying to manage the damaging consequences of climate change. Starting from this image, my project depicts men sweeping the floor while standing in the water, ankle deep. In front of the sweepers, on the floor, is a house and a car swept away by the floods. The tapestries are accompanied by a ceramic fuel nozzle with a knitted oil spill attached, symbolising the fossil fuel companies that accelerate climate change. The installation is created to show the stark contrast between individuals fighting the consequences of climate change, while elsewhere, the oil tap is still running. The title refers to a Dutch saying, literally translated as ‘mopping the floor with the faucet open.

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Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht