Laundry series | chamashir 2007 acrylic on linen 140 x 100 cm available on request
't wasgoed VI 2007 acrylic on linen 90 x 130 cm sold
't wasgoed V 2007 acrylic on linen 100 x 130 cm sold
memorialize something 2020 egg-tempera on linen 13 x 45 cm available
't wasgoed VII 2007 acrylic on linen 140 x 200 cm available on request
lost and found 2007 acrylic on linen 60 x 80 cm sold
nathalia's laundry 2007 acrylic on linen 130 x 190 cm available on request
exhibition view little bird gallery los angeles usa
sareckhi 2007 acrilic on canvas 120 x 140 cm available on request
't wasgoed I 2005 acrylic on linen 140 x 315 cm available
't wasgoed II 2006 acrylic on linen 80 x 240 cm available
't wasgoed IV 2006 acrylic on linen 55 x 35 cm sold
't wasgoed III 2006 acrylic on linen 100 x 200 cm sold
exhibition view artist initiative de verschijning tilburg the netherlands
exhibition view artist initiative de verschijning tilburg the netherlands
exhibition view artist initiative de verschijning tilburg the netherlands
Laundry series
't wasgoed
I painted washing lines for a couple of years, an exploration of absence. The (temporary) absence of people can be clearly felt by painting laundry; laundry which is directly connected to people. I took the photos of laundry, which serve as inspiration, during my travels and stay in artist residencies. I started a series of laundry paintings in 2005 and exhibited the results under the title ’t wasgoed. In 2007, I spent the year travelling extensively and participating in several artist residencies and continued working on the Laundry series. I made these paintings during my residencies at the Union of Bulgarian Artists in Sofia, Bulgaria and at Art-Villa Garikula Residency in Akhalkalaki, Georgia. I concluded my travels with a selection of my residency paintings in the catalogue been everywhere, seen everything and exhibited the paintings under the same title in different exhibition spaces. The Laundry series were exhibited in April 2008 at LittleBird gallery in Los Angeles, USA.
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Beautifully forlorn and remarkable in their lack of direct human representation are Rolina's laundry paintings. She uses clothing as a sort of figurative representation, each garment almost transparent but creating a sort of corporeal presence in and of itself. The viewer is left to wonder and imagine the identity. Melancholic mystery, borne out of the loneliness of culture difference.
Mylissa Fitzsimmons | LittleBird gallery Los Angeles USA | April 2008
Nell has photographed washing lines in various cultural areas but the locations are not immediately recognizable in the paintings. The washed textiles are so beautifully transparent and physically painted that they lead one to fantasise about the absent person. This beauty of emptiness unleashes a stream of thoughts that give the work an inner life.