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May Heek
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Visual research and exhibition @Stadsarchief Zutphen, NL - 4, 11, 18 March 2023
A project based on the life of Johanna Magdalena Catharina Judith van Dorth (1947-1799) and Bookshop De Leur & van Pel Zupthen (1985-1995).
Context
As part of a daily process I expose myself to changing perspectives, reflectiveness and abstractions as possible tools to question and widen the meaning of existing knowledge. I utilize print, video and light in installations to explore surface qualities, sensory experiences and indirect ways of perceiving images. How do we look at image sources and the constantly changing conditions of the medium? How do we define the edge of knowing and un-knowing? By scrutinizing the purpose of representation, I approach new ways of seeing and disassociations with pre-existing connotations, that could potentially become systems for (non)physical communication and reflexivity.
In ‘Still Gold Rushing’ , a livestream of a physical line of screenprints and samples of seemingly valuable looking materials. A sliding camera-dolly presents the relationship between the recorded image, the camera device and the projected image. This loop creates an intuitive interaction between the reflective input materials and the projection, which exposes the position of the viewer and the social implications of the camera itself. The framing and changing perspectives within the set-up provide ideas around, value, embodies-perception, cybernetics, individualism and prejudices.
Credits
Special thanks to: The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts / Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Hendrik Muller Fonds / Fundatie van Renswoude / V2 Lab for Unstable Media Rotterdam