Kirsten Spuijbroek | Solo exhibition | Pondering Haven
The mystery of life, in which the primal force of the eternal new beginning and the awareness of mortality merge, has been associated with the delicate beauty of flowers by people all over the world for tens of thousands of years. In the work of Kirsten Spuijbroek, these two elements unite once more. The artist is not interested in the beauty of the flowers, but in making visible and transferring what the flowers have experienced: becoming heavy, deformed, rotten; cracking, being tested in the heat of over a thousand degrees, is appearing, and becoming eternal. It is the clear choice of flowers and porcelain, and the cool and patient experimentation with material, pigments, glaze, and processing, that give the various shapes (installations, sculptures) their emotional power.