Jantien Jongsma (1965) shows the environment of her neighbourhood Slotervaart in Amsterdam. She first focused on the greenery and birds of the parks and then on the architecture. The inhabitants were next: cyclists, parcel deliverers, people shopping, who perform repetitive actions as in a kind of choreography.
Jongsma conceives the whole as a ballet and gives the inhabitants costumes that are folkloric and modernistic, the buildings becoming set pieces for a kind of continuous performance.
The ideal of progress of modernist architecture thus takes on a warm human quality, changing the city into a playful, nurturing environment.