Attachment

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

#2, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#4, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#7, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#13, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

Installation view during Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, 2014 (Photo: Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media)

Overall view, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

Overall view, As Long As (Sequence 04), 2011

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

The space is dark.
One copy machine, one standard piece of paper, glow-in-the-dark paint and a brush.The lid of the copy machine is open and it’s going to stay that way for the duration of the event. A brushstroke is applied to one piece of paper, crossing it horizontally. The paint is wet. When the paper is placed on the machine it’s done without touching the scanning surface – a few millimeters above the glass so as not to leave a trace.Once the copy button is pressed, the scanning light briefly illuminates the space, and charging the glow-in-the-dark paint. A copy is made. Let’s call it: Copy no. 1. The original piece of paper is placed aside. It glows in the dark space.Now a glow-in-the-dark brushstroke is applied to Copy no. 1, which is then placed on the copy machine – without touching its scanning surface. A flash of light illuminates the space once more as the scan-charge-copy happens. The glowing Copy no. 1 is placed next to the original piece of paper.This repetitive process continues, as a sequence of drawings emerges. Each one depending on its predecessor. Each in its own fading countdown. The last copy remains with no glow-in-the-dark layer on it: the promise of an infinite process.

Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2014)
Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)
As Long As, Seminar with Christian Bernard, ENSBA, Paris, FR (2006)

#performance #drawing #installation #light #glowinthedark #workonpaper #twodimension #variableduration #cycle #series #sequence #countdown #DurationalBoundaries #Attachment

As Long As ~ Tote,

As Long As ~ South of Somewhere,

Ongoing Collection,

Everything Near Becomes Distant
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)

Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Everything Near Becomes Distant
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)

Everything Near Becomes Distant is an exploration of meaning and words as they are translated from one language to another. The work consists of dictionaries arranged in a row, each including words in one language with their equivalents in another language. As Spanish is translated to Romanian, Romanian to German, German to Indonesian, Indonesian to Dutch and so on, the flow through the dictionaries offers a chain of meanings, which are not necessarily equivalent. The collection is eclectic in terms of publication year, edition and category. The differences between each dictionary in terms of vocabulary illustrate the difficulty of faithful translation, traveling from a single intention to an unknown destination.

Cool Loneliness, as part of Home Sequence, Home, Amsterdam, NL (2018)
Online special contribution, בשנים האחרונות גדל הבוץ – In Recent Years, the Mud has Increased, Harama magazine (2018)
Anarchic Infrastructure, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL (2016)
Invitation to the Blues, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL (2015)
Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Armory, NYC, NY, USA (2011)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)

#sculpture #foundobject #word #language #translation #system #sequence #series #collection #carrierofmeaning #navigation #oneofakind #CoolLoneliness #Attachment

Spells,

Ongoing Collection,

Someday He’ll Come Along,

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

In the making, Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Instruction for garden solar light, archive of the artist

Installation view during The 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, 2009 (Photo: Elad Sarig)

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

A garden solar light is placed where its solar panel can collect the maximum amount of full, direct sunlight. During the day, the solar panel converts sunlight into electricity and recharges the battery. The more sunlight it receives; the more power can be stored for the light to use at nighttime. Once night falls, a sensor turns the light on automatically. The solar lights in Ongoing Collection are placed in a glass showcase illuminated by daylight temperature fluorescent lamps. Here, night never falls and the collection never sees daylight. This artificial light does not operate merely to make the collection visible but to incessantly energize it and consequently prevent the lights from turning on. Every time the work is exhibited, a new and varied combination of the growing solar light collection is presented.

Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Customized installation, Persona, production of Studio Minailo, Grachtenfestival, Amsterdam, NL, (2011)
Storyboard edition, IBG2011: Ins Blickfeld geruckt, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, FR (2011)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)
Storyboard edition, Ins Blickfeld Geruck, Institut Francais, Berlin, DE (2010)
The 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL (2009)
Sun Shine Shine, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL (2008)

#installation #object #collection #light #sunlight #solarlamp #cycle #dependency #durationalobject #dayandnight #ongoing #oneofakind #series #Attachment

Everything Near Becomes Distant,

As Long As ~ Drawing,

Someday He’ll Come Along,

Someday He’ll Come Along
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011

Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Detail, Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Someday He’ll Come Along
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011

A collection of white horses: the legendary vehicle by which our dreams will come true. The symbolism of this work is explicitly romantic, suggesting a perfect future possible through just one thing; the arrival of the one. Yet, the work frustrates its own hopefulness through the logic of a collection: the implication that more is always preferable. An accumulation without an end.

Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)

#sculpture #object #collection #anticipation #oneofakind #cliché #Attachment

Ongoing Collection,

Everything Near Becomes Distant,

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,

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As Long As ~ Drawing Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings Variable dimensions and presentation formats Since 2006

As Long As ~ Drawing Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings Variable dimensions and presentation formats Since 2006

Everything Near Becomes Distant Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm] Ongoing (Since 2004)

Everything Near Becomes Distant Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm] Ongoing (Since 2004)

Ongoing Collection Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm Ongoing (Since 2008)

Ongoing Collection Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm Ongoing (Since 2008)

Someday He’ll Come Along White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top 100 x 1800 x 40 cm 2011

Someday He’ll Come Along White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top 100 x 1800 x 40 cm 2011

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

Everything Near Becomes Distant
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)

Everything Near Becomes Distant
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

Someday He’ll Come Along
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011

Someday He’ll Come Along
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011