23 december 2025, Flor Linckens
A constellation of moving images at Art Gallery O-68
Until 11 January, Art Gallery O-68 in Velp presents the exhibition ‘The Movies in my Head’, bringing together video works by six artists: Miloushka Bokma, Tony Dočekal, Thijs Linssen, Louise te Poele, Inge Reisberman and Rozemarijn Westerink. For this presentation, the gallery’s main hall has been fully darkened and equipped with multiple projectors and screens. Within this open structure, each artist is given their own space. In addition, the artists present a series of prints, photographs and small installations that are conceptually linked to the video works.
In the video room, Tony Dočekal’s work “Paper Stars” is on view. We are introduced to twelve-year-old Lyric, who lives in the Sonoran Desert in the south-west of the United States. In the video, she folds a hundred paper stars while her words and gestures seem to hover between childhood and adulthood, as she often sounds much older than her age suggests. The simple, repetitive action takes on the character of a coming-of-age moment. A second video on the same subject is shown on an old-fashioned CRT colour television and Dočekal also presents a series of photographic works that unfold within the same universe.
Louise te Poele presents the film "Surrounded By What’s Called Everything Else", which centres on the making of her eponymous commission for the TU Delft Library, TU Delft Heritage and Art Collections. For this project, she worked with elements from the heritage collection to develop new work. Te Poele says: “We captured the entire process in a film, a journey through archives, imagination, and making.” The video shows how new works can emerge through experiment, chance and intuitive material research, functioning as a record of the process of thinking and making.
Also included in the exhibition is "Breath to Breath" by Miloushka Bokma, a video work previously shown at the Eye Filmmuseum during Cinedans and now part of the museum’s collection. In this work, Bokma explores the ways in which our personal and emotional histories are expressed through posture, facial expression and reactions. In the teaser, we see a woman carrying heavy bags of water with outstretched arms, so heavy that her arms begin to tremble. When she finally drops the bags, she immediately curls inward, as if she is not only startled but already bracing herself for the possible consequences.
Thijs Linssen invites the viewer into an experimental video in which his home situation and parenthood form the starting point. Linssen became a father for the second time this summer and autobiographical material frequently plays a role in his practice. He often works with contrasts: order and chaos, familiarity and estrangement, private and public space. Alongside the video, the exhibition also includes several works on paper by his hand, a photograph and a miniature installation. Together, they offer a sense of the width of his practice, which extends to film, installation and performance.
In ‘The Movies in my Head’, Inge Reisberman presents two recent videos and two animations. One of the video works shows residue mixed with pumped water from a salt flat, partly documentary and partly staged. In circular movements, fluorescent colours appear that recall motor fuel on water. The work examines movement and cycles of water and matter and, by extension, the fragile balance between nature and humankind.
Rozemarijn Westerink, usually known for her works on paper, presents the video triptych "Sea" here. The work consists of three projections featuring stop-motion animations, made with ink on paper and accompanied by sound. Westerink connects her experiences of staying by the sea with an archetypal female body moving through the water, forming a dreamlike metaphor for a symbolic space.
