Within his multidisciplinary art practice, Bart Lunenburg (b. 1995, NL) researches themes related to architecture and its history, urban design and architectural heritage. The artist approaches buildings and cities as if they had a memory of their own. Lunenburg works with photography and video as well as with sculpture, drawing, textile, and spatial installations. Usually, these different modes of expression have a similar starting point — he often creates scale models to develop his research.
A House with Two Shadows consists of sculptures that explore the cycles of (re)construction of the Medieval timber architecture and city fires. Differently scaled layers of the same building are placed, and sometimes ‘woven', on top of each other. The core of the sculptures are often burned, charred. These fragile wooden-charcoal constructions are encapsulated and protected by a larger, new version of that same house — fractal constructions succeeding each other through time.
In this way, the work plays with the idea that a house or a site can be a patchwork.