Components [of a Place] (2023-ongoing)
What do I keep from the places that
I hold dear? 
Components is concerned with places from memory, morphed by time, bias, trauma, and nostalgia. In this project, I use the unreliability of my memory to create artifacts based on places from my life.
Through sculpture, I experiment with decontextualizing domestic and architectural elements, highlighting the way my memory immortalizes these objects, and in turn,the places from which they were harvested.
   
The first part of this work is  breezeblocks. Usually seen in dozens scaling the side of a building, each of these breezeblocks is instead one of a kind, the different patterns borrowing from traditional bricks, spacial ornaments, as well as abstract and nostalgic icons. In their singu- larity as well as their design,they shed their accuracy and functionality and instead become ghostly representations of themselves.
 


 


 

This phase of Components was selected for the 2024 Limburg Biennale at Marres, Maastricht. It was displayed in the room curated by Eugenie Boon. 

photo by Gert Jan van Rooij