Studio Seine presents new work by Tahné Kleijn during Unseen 2023, in a solo exhibition. The thematic series is based on loss and grief. In the style of Soo d’Oude Songen, Soo Pypen de Jonge, Tahné Kleijn photographes herself and her family members, each dealing in their own way with the recent loss of their mother, grandmother and partner. Through this series, Kleijn creates a universal view on the theme of mourning.
Tahné Kleijn wrote about her inspiration for these works: “Thirteen years ago I exhibited for the first time with 'Soo d'Oude Songen', a series about the
problematic family in which I grew up. At the time, I chose to recreate the series every five years. This is how part 2 was created in 2020: ‘About apples falling from trees’. In 2025 I would start working at the third installment. But fort he first time, that doesn’t feel right.
In 2021, a year after making the second series, our mom, the core of our family, passed away. It took me 1.5 years to learn how to live without her. Still not a day goes by that I don’t think of Mom.
That’s when something started anawing at me. If I want to track and record my family, how can I wait until the ‘right moment’ to record the most significant event in my life and that of my family?
This series is a tribute to our mom. A body of work about mourning and new life as well. The change from daughter tot mother and the search for a newly structured family in which the second generation becomes the first.