Titel of work: ‘Forest exhibition’
In collaboration with Emmy Dijkstra
Location: Enschede and Etten-Leur (NL)
Technique: Stencil on (wall)paper
Year: 2012
In 2011 me and Emmy Dijkstra started working together. The collaboration began as an online residency. On a blog we shared our inspiration and worked with a shared theme for each new work. In one year we made four paper installations and a lot of small sketches together and apart from each other. We were looking for a space to show our works, when reading ‘The Summer book’ by Tove Jansson gave us the perfect location: the forest.
We showed our works first in Enschede and later that year in the forest ‘De Koekoek’ in Etten-Leur. The exhibition was shown one day and was build up and down on that same day. For the opening we read out a chapter from ‘The Summer book’ in which a little girl is exploring the island she is staying on that Summer and finds an exhibition, hidden in the forest.
To read more about the forest exhibitions and our ongoing collaboration visit edijkstra.wordpress.com
Pictures by me and Rense Nieuwenhuis