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ONE FRAME AT A TIME

Two red-tinted photographs with abstract, dark shapes hang from a string, tied with clothespins. A blurry person stands in a red-lit room.
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when
February 28, 2026 - March 29, 2026
where
EXbunker

"One frame at a time"  An archive of portraits created over five years, emerging from a practice that resists the instantaneous. Each photograph requires extended exposure time, inviting subjects into a temporal space outside the rhythm of daily life.  In the stillness required by the camera, something shifts. Participants encounter their own breath, involuntary movements, the effort of holding presence. What begins as a technical constraint becomes an unexpected threshold, a pause where accelerated time momentarily suspends.

These images hold traces of that encounter: the micro-tremors of a body attempting stillness, the drift of attention, the strange intimacy of shared duration. They are documents not only of faces, but of time made visible through the body's resistance to complete control.
The exhibition "one frame at a time" gathers these moments across five years and ongoing, creating a collective portrait of individuals who stepped briefly into a different temporal register,  one measured not by efficiency or capture, but by the analog patience of light meeting emulsion.

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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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Dweilen met de Kraan Open

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