De kist voor mijn Oma
(The Coffin for my Grandmother)
Installation, 2014
Some Things Perishable, Curated by Charlott Markus at NEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Shown in combination with the video De Koffer
Photography by Niels Albers
In 2013 my grandmother asked me to build her a coffin for when she would die “in the far future”. No new wood was allowed to be used for this coffin. Only already used, recycled simple wood was good according to her and “no new trees would be needed to be cut”. It would give her peace of mind she said, to know that her final vessel would be finished, waiting for her passing, placed under a table cloth in her own house.
