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Kasteel van Oost / Castle of East, Amsterdam 2008  
   


Installation in Centre for Visual Arts CBK Amsterdam
6 photographs, archival pigment ink on canvas, 220 cm x 100 cm (87 inch x 40 inch)
3 photographs, archival ink on paper, between di-bond and plexi,
95 cm x 120 cm (38 inch x 48 inc)h, 120 cm x 95 cm (48 inch x 38 inch), 125 cm x 95 cm (50 inch x 38 inch)

The "Elisabeth Otter-Knoll Building", completed in 1912, housed a senior home, for elderly upper-class ladies without financial means.

The most significant "hidden" space in this building is the attic above the former dining room, where the installation is located. For this occasion, photographs of different spaces in the building are installed in this attic and then photographed again. The resulting photographs show parts of the attic with (what seems to be) passages to other parts of the building.

Three prints are installed, hanging free in the space and blocking the view to the other photographs in the installation.
Exploring this building, means seeking traces of the past and present. Between 1986 and 1995 I had a studio in the basement of the building. This makes my personal past become part of the building's history. Traces of this are situated on the backside of the panels.

This project hss been realized with the generous support of the AFK



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