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gedeelte uit tekst van Els Fiers: 'Vulnerability. For Tineke van Veen this is a keyword. Her work is always balanced on the boundary between harm and preservation, safety or disaster, aggression or consolation. Whichever topic is broached, you feel that the artist plays with the idea of going that one step further, where disaster strikes, equilibrium breaks, the person drowns. The request to participate, rather than to remain neutral on the sidelines, comes back in her whole oeuvre. There is always more than you think at first sight and you as the viewer must take a position. That striving for balance - a process that first takes place in the mind of the artist and then in that of the viewer - I find interesting. Tineke’s work invites you to think with her. But we find ourselves in the area of the psyche: memories, childhood, threat, love and grief, sensitive issues that may be confrontational. When you as an artist choose such topics it is necessary to find a good balance. september 2010