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Wrapping
for a marginal citizen 1994 is a 12 metre long cloth with 21 to 24 identical
images of my 6 month old son staring directly at the camera. The various
texts underneath each image 'read' as a sort of monologue-come-dialogue.
They reflect comments made to me when I had a baby with me on a train, in
a gallery, or on the street.
It is also a piece about looking at the diverse and our definitions of what is central or normal in society. I want to create the feeling that you, the viewer, are like the cloth that hangs around the wall. To feel the position of standing (at the edge of society) or watching from the margins.
The video of the same name is quasi-biographical
in that I use my own art objects to tell stories, just as the children tell
stories in their playing. Two voices: a cynical one and an optimistic one
'converse' as images of eggs being played with, being forced into transparent
egg-cups, being eaten and being broken merge between images of my art objects
being played with by the children.
In the Threads of the Day exhibition,
2008
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| 2012 | OpenMakers Aalmarkt Studio, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2009-10 | 43 prints + paintings Aderna Kapsalon, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | Galerie TamTam, a show I curated in 19 shop locations around the north of Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2008 | Threads of the Day, Leids Wevershuis, Leiden Museum of Weaving, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2008 | Wrapped, and at home, Wiebke Morgan Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, U.K. |
| 2004 | Off The Wall, two weeks of performances, workshop projects and installations in the Templar's Shopping Centre, Oxford, U.K. |
| 2004 | Oceania, Terpkerk, Urmond Terp Church (now used as an art gallery), Urmond, The Netherlands. |
| 2002 | International Sculpture Symposium, Singeorz-Bai, Romania |
| 2002 | Domestically Spaced, Gallery Space-Station 65, London, U.K. |
| 1995 | Mycelium, Landbouwbelang, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 1994 | Sonja's Choice, Kunstcentrum, Sittard, The Netherlands |
 | In the Mycelium exhibition, 1995, Maastricht, The Netherlands. |
 Above and Below, installed in 1994 in Sonja's Choice, Kunstcentrum, Sittard.  |
 2002 installed in the "Domestically Spaced" show, London, U.K. |
 2004 installed in the "Off The Wall" festival in Templar's Shopping Mall, Oxford, U.K. |
 2004 installed in the "Off The Wall" festival in Templar's Shopping Mall, Oxford, U.K. |
 2004 installed in the "Oceania" exhibition, Terpkerk, Urmond, The Netherlands. |
 2004 installed in "Off The Wall" Oxford, U.K. |
 2004 installed in "Off The Wall" Oxford, U.K.     2009 installed in "Galerie TamTam" Leiden, The Netherlands. 
|  2009 installed in "Galerie TamTam" Leiden, The Netherlands.    
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