2020/2021
Archival print on Hahnemüle photorag
Photos on aluminium, framed in oak frames using Museum glass UV 70%
Prices including frame
Available in the following sizes:
55 x 35 cm € 1400,- Edition 9 + 2 AP
85 x 56 cm € 2800,- Edition 5 + 2 AP
110 x 75 cm € 4500,- Edition 3 + 2 AP
PINK DESERT / Test Site I
Roderik Henderson, Fay Henderson, Jasper Frenken
After his presentation at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in 2020, Frank Taal Galerie presents the second part of PINK DESERT, a series of photos by Roderik Henderson, in which his daughter sits on a boulder in a desolate place in the desert at the foot of the Andes during all hours of day and night, because there she is the least is hindered by the voices in her head, which otherwise constantly occupy her. She is the only sign of human life, surrounded by spiders, scorpions, and cacti. The landscape here is not just a slavish backdrop; it is both a prickly, antagonistic entity and a mental construction that curiously offers comfort.
Fay Henderson's sound work can be heard in the photographs of Pink Desert. In these, she uses sounds from her environment to create a sonorous landscape, which is, in a sense, an aural portrait of the place where she lives.
Jasper Frenken makes sound installations, in which he combines simple materials in unexpected ways, creating enigmatic compositions in which soundless music, made at frequencies that cannot be heard by human ears, causes objects to tremble, vibrate, etc. so that eventually sound is perceptible, but as a kind of "sound fallout".
The final of Pink Desert is expected at the end of 2022, including a comprehensive publication of Roderik Henderson's work.
Henderson studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited and published internationally, awarded the World Press Photo Portraits/Fine Art First Prize and the Sony World Photography Awards Fine Art First Prize.
Recently his project Pink Desert was nominated for the Somfy Photography Award/ Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.