dutch avatars: woman’s hand
Blind Date
U bent hier/ You are here
Game over
Board game of the last fisherman
The Street Room
Poster 'Ootjies Bag'
Lucky Apples in Vathorst
Hors-jeu
The Vanished House Between Heaven and Earth
Help thyself
G.L.
Birds’ Palaces and Other Very Useful Things
Girl's Stories
Draw me a hopscotch / Dessine-moi une marelle
A Traveller's Note 1
Parafernalia
The Observer's Books
Girl’s stories
Des histoires de fille (Girl's Stories)
Cabinet of Curiosities in the form of a collection of boxes.
Balta 2002
As opposed to the Cabinets of Curiosities from the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, this one is made of perishable materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic...
The collection comprises 25 numbered boxes measuring 75 x 105 x 55 mm. The sides of the boxes show black fingerprints, which refer to the opening of each box. This Cabinet of Curiosities can be compared to a closed book-block: its content cannot possibly be taken in at a glance. In this case, the numbers on the lids are the page numbers. The title refers to a French expression that is difficult to translate into English. he word ‘histoires’ means ‘affairs’ as well as ‘stories’. As a result, the spectator is poised between serious ‘girls’ affairs’ and frivolous ‘girls’ stories’.
Mixed media
