Concepts such as transformation, assimilation and appropriation play an important role in the work of multimedia artist Ana Navas. The connection between art and life is the common thread. Navas does not start from the idea of the original artwork, but investigates the constant transformations of aesthetic ideas, forms and images. Art and life meet in the afterlife of works of art, in the way in which they penetrate our daily lives. Navas observes these transformations and responds to them in her work. A special series of works are the so-called Plates, of which we are showing three at Art Rotterdam. Ana about her Plates: “From the beginning I liked the idea of the Plates and they were a form in which I could experiment with all kinds of references and sources of inspiration such as forms of displays, sculptures, playgrounds, souvenir shops, museums. It is a way to understand and organize objects.” For the Plates shown at Art Rotterdam, Ana Navas was inspired by the history of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and the work of Betsie Bijtelaar (1898-1978) who was closely connected to the Oude Kerk as an archivist and researcher. She was the one who discovered the place in the church where the grave of Saskia Uylenburgh is located. She also made visual work and Navas' Plates enter into a dialogue with a number of Bijtelaar's drawings that she made at different locations in the city and in the Oude Kerk. Using the exact location of her drawings as a guideline, Navas' works consist of reliving the same location in small paintings. In this way she shows the place, the views from the same corner, street, building, at different moments see in history.