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Item: Personal Matters and Matter of Fact

HEDWIG HOUBEN

2011

Installation, 80 x 55 x 65 cm, 30 x 30 x 30 cm, 00:22:00.
Materials: video, self-portrait from plasticine, Rietveld chair

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam.

This work comprises a video and a selection of objects. It is a work documenting a conversation between a self-portrait sculpture, a Rietveld chair and the artist. The two objects and the artist search for a possible way to create a meaningful picture together. Doubts, beliefs and concepts are discussed and interrogated from different perspectives in their dialogue towards the attempt to make the picture. The video is displayed in a sculptural combination with the chair and the self-portrait sculpture. (NH)

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