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Marijke van Warmerdam

CCA Project Gallery presented a new work by Marijke van Warmerdam, who lives and works in Amsterdam.

The exhibition ‘The stick, the splash and the light’ has been conceptualised as spreading out time that behaves as a liquid, a phenomenon one cannot stop. Everyone who can make the slightest move is physically and therefore mentally confronted with time. We have to live in it and with it, whether time has been invented by us or not.

Will a supporting stick hold a photo with a stick? Does a splash of water change a landscape? How long can you lighten up a space? Is a deceased mother a separation? For all these questions Marijke van Warmerdam seems to observe with the eyes of a cat in the dark. Here her works deal with temporary situations and actions. The work ‘Hold on!’, a frozen pool of paint with a hue of mother-of-pearl, refers to her freezes of time. Time is put on hold, which leaves the beholder behind in speculations on what might come next. Fast or radical transitions in for instance a landscape turn time into an ever changing sequence of short moments.

Marijke van Warmerdam stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as Professor of Research Program during a month of December 2005.

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