On Sunday September 21, at 15.00 h I am interviewed by journalist, writer and presenter Yaël Vinckx during the first edition of the Leiden Podium Pitch. Other guests are journalist and writer Christiaan Weijts, dance group Ish and the Golden Oldies. Address of The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities: Rapenburg 28, Leiden. Free entrance.
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Fragments of a Personality by Lenny Waasdorp; Gemak, The Hague
In Gemakstore photographer Lenny Waasdorp has a small exhibition.
It’s called Fragments of a personality.
She took her own face as a starting point and made different variations.
The result is an astonishing number (sixty nine to be exact) of characters.
At the same time she was clearly also looking for different visions of femininity, or what makes a portrait feminine.
There are only few portraits where the gender is more or less ambivalent or may be even masculine.
She also had the faces analysed by a so-called face reader, with some funny results.
The two pictures from the series Saturday Night show even more fragmentation. Both scenes seem to be disintegrating.
They make an interesting exhibition. And for people (like me) who follow Waasdorp on Facebook, it’s a good chance to see these pictures in a reasonable print version.
Announcement of my artist in residence stay in Barbarka for July this year. I look forward working in Poland again and to meet my fellow artists from Italy, Libanon, Marocco, Norway, Poland, Russia, Tunisia and Turkey. There’s a full program with presentations, day trips to Torun and Gdansk, visiting exhibitions and musea, workshops, and plenty of time to work.
Three out of the six photos from the Saturday Night serie: fragments of a personality. Like you’ve scratched the surface layer of an object with your nails. I don’t want to show what is already there, but what you are inclined to deny.