Genius Loci
“My work evolves around gestures, actions and captured moments”
During a visit to the EKWC in Den Bosch, the dilapidated house was again the central focus in an investigation. The plane of a wall still standing, the planes of the door and windows and the depth of an underlying plane created by a missing door. All these planes that together create the house’s visuals were translated into clay.
You can see the contours of a building. Within the contours, the planes vary in shape and distance to the wall. Since the surface of each plane has been treated differently, the skin is also always different. It seems solid, while the overall aura is one of transience. This is due to the salts and engobes used to shape the skin. The drawing, the craquelé and the use of salt alter the solid look and make the piece vulnerable.
Manipulated decay was also present in the creation of the other piece presented at the EKWC. The work consists of various components and appear to be the leftovers from producing various implements. After drying, the artist exposed them to a water bath containing salts. The salts gradually caused the shape to decay. Corners became rounder, the shapes appear worn. The work is again characterised by decay.
Later, Anne J. van Stuijvenberg placed the pieces in the grass at an exhibition in the KNMI park in De Bilt. There they lay on the edge between the neatly-mowed grass and the chaos of the unmowed. It was as if they has drifted there and, away from home, were looking for a new destination.
