Transformation through Actions

    Transformation through Actions shows you how interventions such as breaking apart, rearranging, and rebuilding radically change a form. Sculptures and paintings are subjected to physical or virtual operations: they are dismantled and reassembled. These reconstructions reveal how fragile and layered forms and ideas can be. 

    Project Transformations

    Developments and First Forms

    2017 - De snijplank

    The Cutting Board is an animation about an artist who, despite doubt and a longing for recognition, cannot let go of his creative drive and continually starts anew.

    An apparently gruesome scene unfolds: a man chops off his own hand on a table.

    Yet it turns out to be less horrifying than it seems. The animation explores the drive and doubt that accompany the act of creation. The man tries to detach his right hand — the one he creates with — in a desperate attempt to free himself from his creative urge.

    But after the act, a new spark of inspiration appears in the bloodstain. He places the board among hundreds of others, and as he walks away, his creative drive — and his hand — grow back once more.

    The film shows how, despite doubt and the longing for recognition, an artist keeps going — a continuous cycle of letting go and beginning again.


    2008 - Variations with Two Marys

    Variations with Two Marys consists of twelve interchangeable panels that each form a new image within a single cohesive whole.

    This painting consists of twelve small wooden panels that can be rearranged in various ways. Each new configuration reveals a different version of the same work. Through these shifts, a sequence of changing images emerges: two Marys, a euro sign, a man licking an ice cream, a hand holding a gun, a hand with playing cards, and a snake. In this way, a single painting becomes the carrier of multiple images, each with a new focus yet a consistent thematic coherence.

    The original work dates from 2008; in 2020, a video was created that makes these successive transformations visible.


    2007 - Beware of Dog

    Beware of Dog consists of four interchangeable canvases that together form a different image each time.

    This painting consists of four smaller canvases that can be rearranged in different ways. Each combination reveals another version of the work. In the video (2020), this shifting process is made visible. The original painting dates from 2007.


    2009 - Reflections in Motion

    Reflections in Motion is a polyester object in which mirrors and video images together create a continuously shifting play of form and color.

    This small polyester object consists of abstract shapes connected by hinges that can be arranged in different positions, causing the overall form to change continuously. The work dates from 2009.

    In 2013, additional elements such as a TV screen and mirrors were added. The color changes on the screen are reflected in the object, making it appear to shift in color — a subtle play of reflection and movement. While the object itself lies motionless on a mirror, the screen images reveal invisible hands manipulating it.