Zonnebank

Installation view: change fair, Violet, Antwerp (BE). Zonnebank, 2024. French oak, cyanotype, 250 x 26 x 2,5 cm.

I spent more than two hours sitting on the planks, motionless, exposed to the sun. Zonnebank (sunbed), two upright planks, printed using the sun, can be read as a play on words, starting with the idea of worshipping the sun and light, and the process of looking, observing and reflecting. […] Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were a confession; suppose I shredded my napkin as we spoke. It began slowly. An appreciation, an affinity. Then, one day, it became more serious. […] Excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets.

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