The works were created as a result of a residency at VierVaart in Groede, a temporary interior studio of the Mondriaan Fund. “Normally I process my personal household waste into autonomous sculptures. The special context of VierVaart on a former farmyard with organic garden, bees and chickens forced me to once again question the ecological feasibility of our food production. That is why I worked, among other things, with silage bale film collected from neighboring farmers”.
The title of the exhibition is derived from the Greek word plastikós for malleable, mouldable. Both the word plastic and the sculptural term plastic, a form that arises from a malleable mass, are derived from it. The title Plastikos connects the material used with sculpture and expresses the duality in Visser's work: art and sustainability.
During his working period, Jan Eric Visser made a total of eighteen sculptures and wall objects. RAM presents some of these new works online.