Verwoest Huis, 2010http://www.cokkiesnoei.com/index.php?
This exhibition of Marjan Teeuwen's work was one of the most arresting and intriguing of the smaller, commercial galleries that I visited in Amsterdam, showing around 10 large, photographic prints. I haven't been able to find any information in English on the project, but I'm intrigued as to whether the photographs acted as documentation of an installation or as the art work it self.
The sheer volume of objects confused the perspective of the viewer having a disorientating effect which made it difficult to discern the original orientation of the structure. Room after room seemed to lead onto one another, at first glance the images seemed to have been taken from afar but on closer inspection the scale of the installations is revealed. Although this wasn’t consistent in every shot it broke up the possible monotony of the series.
The organised anarchy of miscellaneous objects defined the space with meticulous control in a contradictory of way. There was a sense of spontaneity in the images, harking back to images seen of typical hoarders and their homes, but the ordered nature of the stunning amount of "stuff" contains undertones archival instinct. It would be really interesting to find out what the artist herself says about this series.
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