At Unseen, ROOF-A presents new work by Sjoerd Knibbeler, Marjan Teeuwen and Daan Zuijderwijk.
Sjoerd Knibbeler | Passanten
Sjoerd Knibbeler is a contemporary artist who lives and works in the Netherlands. His artworks are presented both nationally and internationally. This fall, we’ll be proudly premiering his new series ‘Passanten’ in a solo exhibition at ROOF-A, Unseen and at the emergence sector of Paris Photo.
“The absent image that he seeks to bring into the world is that of a present that leaves its marks everywhere, but hides from our eyes. These totems will make us remember it, they aren’t ruins of past cataclysms, but companions of a shared present that must be faced head-on.” ‘Raphaëlle Stopin
Marjan Teeuwen | Destroyed House Brutus
After a year of building and photographing, we present the results of the 11th architectural installation Destroyed House Brutus. Under the title Destroyed House, Teeuwen makes sculptures of discarded buildings at home and abroad. She has worked in Rotterdam-Zuid and Amsterdam-Noord, as well as in politically sensitive areas across the border: from Siberia to Gaza.
The 11th installation is a collaboration between three cultural parties; the artist, ROOF-A/Lobke Broos and Brutus, where Marjan Teeuwen realised her installation in an ‘unexplored’, once bricked-up space, almost completely cut off from the outside world and without daylight. The result is a brutalist installation and five autonomous photographic works, three of which will be shown at UNSEEN.
Daan Zuijderwijk | Parallel
Visual artist Daan Zuijderwijk's ‘Parallel’ series consists of photographs and sculptures. The photographs show projections Zuijderwijk projects at night on rock formations in various places in Europe. Zuijderwijk has been travelling around Europe with his family since 2017. That nomadic life began as a search for a new life closer to nature. Meanwhile, for Zuijderwijk it is a voyage of discovery into a new era, one where humans are no longer all-determining, but where cooperation is central.
The patterns in both the photographs and sculptures emphasise an interconnectedness of things. Everything affects each other and everything is connected on some level. The sculptures consist of material Zuijderwijk collected during his travels. They are pieces of driftwood shaped by the elements, reindeer antlers obtained after encounters with Sami communities, or pieces of wood with a special shape or meaning. The sculptures not only reflect Zuijderwijk's nomadic life, but they are also literally the result of the symbiosis between artist and nature.