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Untitled, Art Center VHDG, Blokhuisplein 40, Leeuwarden (NL), May 2006
Material: Lycra and black beans; 5 x 7 x 4 m
Commissioned by: Stichting Voorheen De Gemeente
Photo: Gerard Groenewoud
After seven years of contemporary arts activism in Leeuwarden without a fixed base of operations,
Stichting Voorheen De Gemeente opened a space on the Blokhuisplein.
The first exhibition was entitled 'Proliferate' and Tanja Smeets was asked
(along with Lizan Freijsen and Driessens & Verstappen) to make a sculpture.
'I graduated in painting, and seek materials that I can use as "paint".
I cut metres and metres of lycra bikini fabric into strips: kitsch printed fabrics, in all shades of blue.
By stretching the strips into long tendrils, weaving them together, incorporating black beans every now and then,
I fused the materials into a new structure.'
The sculpture in Leeuwarden was a nasty, dripping growth that appeared to penetrate through the cracks near the windows
and create new offshoots. It gave the impression that the VHDG's new space would quickly become overgrown.
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