't wasgoed | 2020 nagele northeast polder netherlands
't wasgoed 2020 nagele northeast polder netherlands
't wasgoed 2020 nagele northeast polder netherlands
't wasgoed 2020 nagele northeast polder netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2016 museum schokland netherlands
't wasgoed 2018 museum elburg netherlands
't wasgoed 2018 museum elburg netherlands
't wasgoed 2019 dat bolwerck zutphen netherlands
't wasgoed 2019 dat bolwerck zutphen netherlands
't wasgoed
The installation 't wasgoed features women in traditional Walcheren costumes fluttering on a peg-less clothesline, just as they did in the past, tied between twisted ropes. It fascinated me that some women, who came to the Northeast Polder with their husbands in the 1940s and 1950s, held onto their traditional clothing as a form of identity and a familiar foothold in an unfamiliar world.
For the nocturnal exhibition RAM, I placed 't wasgoed in front of a Zeeland farm, a long-gabled farmhouse mostly inhabited by farmers who had come from Zeeland. The island of Walcheren was flooded in the fall of 1944. After it was drained, there was no longer room for all the farmers, so the Walcheren farmers were relocated to the Northeast Polder.
The installation 't wasgoed consists of a twenty-five-meter peg-less clothesline with thirteen prints of original charcoal drawings on transparent fabric (each piece 165 x 85 cm) and two poles, each four meters high.