GENESIS 1:1

Josilda de Conceição Gallery, solo show, installation view, 2017

GENESIS 1:1

This paper was made with an unusual material: not waste paper, rags or wood, but with pages from the Creation Narratives of the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an. Three exact equal parts were used, accurate to the tenth of a gram, from the Genesis sections of the three holy books. It’s interesting that these three world religions have so much in common while it evolved into huge differences, hatred and murder. This blended paper is a paradox, it still contains the original texts but was changed into unwritten pages. Clean slate, tabula rasa.

In total 7 sheets symbolize the 6 creation fases/days and the 7th day of rest. In the Bible the Genesis story starts with 1:1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Hand made paper, 6.5x8inches (16x21,5cm), 2017
Maple frame 8x11inches (21x28cm), Mertens White, 99% art glass.

The World Problem & Other Inconveniences, group show, curated by Reinder ven der Woude, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, January 2020

WAR RUGS

WAR RUG ALLAHU AKBAR & OMG
IJssel Biennial, Netherlands, 2017. War rugs were first woven when Russia occupied Afghanistan in the eighties, visualizing tanks, helicopters, hand grenades, kalashnikovs, etc. The distinctive characteristic of these rugs is their capacity to convey their makers' experiences and interpretations of the circumstances and politics of war and conflict in the region. Caravan's war rugs also expose the state of our society.

Wall tapestry, 100% cotton, 60x80inches (150x200cm), 2017

WAR RUG TREATMENT & WAR RUG PROTECTION

A certain president suggested to inject detergents and swallow hydrochloroquine as a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. While we know that would make things worse. The US had the most infections and casualties. Use garlic and don’t forget to buy extra toilet paper. It's a war out there.

Wall tapestry, 100% cotton, 50x60inches (125x150cm), 2020

THANK YOU

THANK YOU, 2022
After the artist’s collection plastic shopping bags from New York City. Oil and acrylic on canvas, cut-out, 15x20inches (37x55cm)

There are about 60,000 pounds of waste on the beaches in the Netherlands (27.000 kg). That’s 100 pounds per mile beach, varying from candy wrappers and potato chip bags to cigarette buds and fishing nets. Most of the waste is plastic. To all wasters and polluters: THANK YOU

Art collective Popinnart created a disruptive booth at the art fair KunstRAI in Amsterdam, on the rising sea level that will be a huge problem for the Netherlands, a country that’s for a large part below sea level.

VOTING RIGHTS

The best booth of Art The Hague art fair 2019. To celebrate 100 years of Women's Votings rights, men had to pay 6% more when they bought an artwork, to close the gender pay gap.

The artists of art collective Popinnart made round art and the booth was bright 'Barbie' pink completed with 3 ironing boards. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visited and was excited.

SCENT OF MAGNOLIA
Sweet and Fresh. Ode to Nina Simone and the sad song 'Strange fruit'. Oil on raw linen, mounted on wood, bucket, ø12.5x10.5inch (ø32x26cm), 2019

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE 100 and WHITEWASH at the 2019 Salon of Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Oil on raw linen, mounted on wood, bucket, ø12.5x10.5inches (ø32x26cm), 2019

ASSOCIATES

GREAT ARTISTS STEAL group show, Amsterdam, 2019. A 13x13feet (4x4 meter) wall, 16 paintings called Associates, 12x14”/14x17” (30x35cm/45x35cm), which are an ode to artists like On Kawara, James Rosenquist, Elaine Sturtevant, Deborah Kass, Ed Ruscha, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and others, appeared in google image search results, next to the originals.

James Rosenquist - Spaghetti

In the front vandalized and beheaded MLK statues, read about Monument for Martin Luther King here.

100,000,000 DEATHS

VACUUM

Performance in solitude, two-week artist in residence, Boeddha in de Linie, animated gif, endless loop, 2014

Impression of some paintings made before 2014, oil and acrylic on canvas and fabric.