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Omschrijving werk

Robin de Goede: "One expects a site or place to be defined, the very words affirm this: we are here or there which means this or that which entails such and such and then we are on solid ground. But the common denominator of the places in this drawings is precisely that they seem to be situated in the middle of nowhere. This world is alaramingly unnamed, uninhabited, empty. Everything the work seems to offer with one hand is immediately taken back again with the other. We seem to find ourselves in a kind of simulacrum where nothing has a meaning we can relate to meanings we believe we know from our daily lives although purely from a visual point of view many objects remind us of them. Instead of an answer to our questions as to identity and existence we are once more treated to the key question, as if from a mirror: where am I? – followed immediately by: who am I? When we are in a well defined space we can consequently try to find our way from there and track back until we know where we belong and when we know where we belong we also know who we are. But when we are nowhere, as these drawings seem to indicate, we know nothing at all. The places shown by these drawings reflect the very question they ask themselves about their own position: what is my meaning, what am I doing here? The images are lost in the great endless nowhere that by the same token can be anywhere (none of these places are geographically specified) and ‘anywhere’ is no place. In other words, in the guise of something acting as if it were a place, we are provided with no place at all but with a series of non-places that on top of it all are interchangeable."