Unseen 2022: Tania Franco Klein, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Diana Scherer, Frank van der Salm, Marjan Teeuwen
Tania Franco Klein | The glow of cinema images in the dark
Tania Franco Klein is an artist from Mexico and making her Dutch debut. Her presentation at UNSEEN takes one entire wall with both new work and a selection from her young oeuvre. The public moves with her through an imaginary travel diary, encouraged by its title 'Proceed To The Route'.
Sjoerd Knibbeler | In Elements
Questions to the elements
There’s such a large part of reality that is invisible! Thanks to scientific knowledge, people are gradually finding out more about what moves deep inside the earth, how air flows and winds blow, how water moves around a ship or how clouds change shape. These may be very real and physical phenomena, but how can they be photographed? Or better still: what does it take to create such an image?
Diana Scherer | Wonderground
Diana Scherer is a visual artist and one of the pioneers in biotech art. She works with root systems of plants. Her studio is an artificial biotope, where many shades of leafy green light up. Here, she allows natural tissues to grow into works of art. Scherer presents the underground crops and root networks of her plants as a tapestry, but she also integrates them into photo works, as a living sculpture, or as textile.
Marjan Teeuwen | Destroyed House
Demolished buildings are Marjan Teeuwen’s field of activity, and her audience also encounters clutter, construction waste, and dust. Under the title Destroyed House, Teeuwen creates sculptures of discarded buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. She has worked in Rotterdam-Zuid and Amsterdam-Noord, but also in politically sensitive areas across the border, from Siberia to Gaza. Destroyed House is a multifaceted monument to the human condition, which appears rock-hard, but is as transitory as life itself. The series Destroyed House, Teeuwen’s life’s work, is a diabolical balancing act with an open ending, as the cycle of demolition and construction itself knows no end. Still, the photos that Teeuwen creates of it escape the tipping point. Here, chaos and order are evenly matched, in a radical reversal of the urge to destroy.