Nothing To Hide Here
Ongoing series
2023
Cotton thread, 100 x 120 cm
A window piece in filet crochet, an old-fashioned lacelike technique commonly used for curtains
or tablemats. Back in the days, you could find them all over Belgium, covering up windows to avoid people from peeking in.
This one was created to be included in the perfomative tour and is to be hung in dialogue with a CCTV-camera pointed towards a window.
Legally these cameras can’t use footage from a private atmosphere like somebody’s home, but you never know how quickly laws can be bent.
Traditionally these curtains portray flowers or cutesy scenes, but I am making a “modern” series – on the long run, because the technique is extremely labour-intensive. With pampleth-like language I question the thin line between private and public, or make pixelated drawings in this outdated technique.
Nothing to hide here, pt. II
Ongoing series
2024
Cotton thread, steel frame, 65 x 65 cm
The QR-version, which would lead to the text “Nothing to hide here”, if the work would function as a QR-code. This experiment of drawing an existing QR-code in this old-fashioned technique, was selected for the ‘Draad. Het absurde is overal’. Given the absurd amount of time I have given to this failed experiment, I’m glad it still found another purpose.
