PLAYGROUND

An installation that plays with the given meaning and functionality of objects and their role in society. It aims to create a dynamic interaction between these characteristics within an object, playing upon their notional, sculptural and the functional aspects. The installation is conceived as a tool to mentally engage with this playground of manmade objects, inviting the viewer to reconsider an object’s position and meaning, freed from the constraints of any preconceived notions regarding their categorization, systems and functionality.

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Playground - Exhibited at Ron Mandos Gallery NL
Playground - Exhibited at Ron Mandos Gallery NL


A playground of objects in strong colors and new textures built of clay and glaze. Materials as mattress and porcelain is used to create a cliff-like landscape on a wall that relates and highlights the natural character of the works and their individual elements in their transformation from “Object” to “Sculpture”.

With this installation I invite the viewers to play and to remind ourselves that it is only ourselves that create the rules.

With this installation I invite the viewers to play and to remind ourselves that it is only ourselves that create the rules.

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Playground - Exhibited at Ron Mandos Gallery NL
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In my work I’m interested to find out how we categorize and define objects. I can not tell the full story of when or how categorization takes place, but I can describe a personal or sometimes common selection of thoughts and considerations that I find essential in how we look at a man-made object.

For me it is interesting how the rules of language determine how one sees, feels, uses and relates to objects.

History, language, material and function are all key topics in my work which unfold some of the seen and unseen secrets of an object. My object. I find it interesting how communication is determining and defining objects, and I hope you as the viewer will come to question the origin of objects as much as I do.