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To pick up a stone
Claudia den Boer (NL)
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Concept and photography:
Claudia den Boer
Design:
Rob van Hoesel
Lithography:
Marc Gijzen
Production:
Jos Morree (Fine Books)
Print:
Wilco Art Books (NL)
Binding:
Patist (NL)
Supported by:
Makersfonds Tilburg
AuntArt
Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant
Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant
Kunstloc Brabant
Stones. Why do we have the tendency to them pick up from the ground? Why do we like to throw them in water? And why do many people take them home as souvenirs? We seem to want to connect to earth this way, or perhaps even to eternity. It is precisely this connection that Claudia den Boer (NL) was looking for when she picked up stones in the Moroccan Sahara, the Tibetan highlands, around the mysterious Montserrat in Catalonia, and the mighty Georgian Caucasus. In these places, the stone and the mountain became one for her.
Once home, she went on a second journey, but this time within the landscapes of her analog negatives. By zooming in on the images she had previously made, she looked again at what she had already seen, discovering new landscapes.
In photographic studies, Den Boer examines the experience of scale, perspective and spatiality through an eclectic variety of images of mountains, rocks and stones. Time, light and distance determine the experience of something as massive as a mountain, but can the expression of a mountain also be discovered in a close-up, or even in a single stone? The diversity of her images show how changeable our view of a seemingly static object can be.
Claudia den Boer graduated in 2008 from the art academy St. Joost in the photography department. Photography is a way for Den Boer to discover how she relates to places and spaces. Sometimes she comes across these places in daily life, other times she consciously searches for a specific place, area or landscape. Den Boer says about this: “place as a phenomenon fascinates me because it is omnipresent, we move through places at any time of the day, it is what we see around us, it is where we meet, it is as it were scenery where our lives play out, and I believe that places have a great influence on our state of mind.”
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Verborgen Stad€ 24.50- Martijn Honselaar (NL)
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The discovery of a hidden world of open and meaningful spaces when researching the ribbon structure of the city of Tilburg.
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Anchors€ 32- Claudia den Boer (NL)
A visual essay of calm spaces, focusing on the difference between silence and emptiness.
“In a photograph, the absence of markers of scale (trees, human figures, etc.) can result in uncertainty over what one is actually looking at. As a consequence, if in real life there never is any confusion over whether one is dealing with a landscape or a stone taken from it, in a photograph that distinction can disappear. The book plays with the consequences of this, at times making it impossible to figure out what exactly one is looking at, or more accurately: the scale of what’s on view.” (Jörg Colberg)
“Rather than standing apart from the world and creating representations of it, To Pick Up a Stone uses the camera, the photograph and the book form as ways of reaching beneath its skin, taking it apart and remaking it in different forms. These forms, for their part, are not simple substitutes – replacements of one sense by another. Each one draws out something entirely new and unique to the reader, as though it has been placed there just for us, like a stone on a beach.” (Eugenie Shinkle)