'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 shows women in Walcheren traditional costumes flapping on the peg-less clothesline. Just like the old days, old-fashioned tied between twisted rope. It intrigued me that some women, who came along with their husbands to the Northeast Polder in the 1940s, 1950s, held on to their traditional clothing. Costume as an expression of identity, and as 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 inhabited mainly by farmers who came from Zeeland. The Zeeland island of Walcheren was flooded in the fall of 1944. When the island was later drained again, there was no more room for a large number of farmers. These Walcheren farmers were given place in the Northeast Polder.
The installation 't wasgoed consists of a twenty-five meters peg-less clothesline with thirteen prints of an original charcoal drawing on transparent fabrics (piece 165 x 85 cm) and two pols of four meters.