time specific projects and public > Spinthout

'Group A, family portrait' and 'uit-leg/ex-plan(e)-ation' were made for the Spinthout exhibition at Barbara Gallery in Dordrecht , NL in March 2026. They became a project of building and rebuilding, changing and all the while loosing more and more of control.
I made the prototypes in the States out of painted pre-used cardboard and pallet wood, disassembled the work, stripped the wood of all the painted cardboard and shipped the cardboard in a cardboard box to the Netherlands. When we got to the Netherlands, I reassembled the work, following my exact notes, at the large, abandoned factory building, the Volharding in Haarlem, during a sort of mini residency.
The works metamorphosed after being rebuild in the Netherlands (intended and not) as the cardboard was responding to the different climate and the pallet wood turned out to differ in measurements. But that was part of the idea; the work is changing . Uit-leg and Group A had to be disassembled again and transported for the Spinthout exhibit, to be rebuild two months later, not by me , this time, but by the artist and curator Jan Willem van Welzenis. He was following instructions and predominantly photos, but they changed again a little.
After the show the works were disassembled again and transported back to Haarlem. Group A will be build up once more by a third party, the artist duo Lucas Hoeben, for their exhibit in Haarlem. After that works future is unknown