The Travels of Here and Now

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By Stéphanie Saadé

The Travels of Here and Now departs from the XVIIIth century wall-hangings by Jurriaan Andriessen of Museum van Loon; Installed in the Drakensteyn room, they encompass the whole space, immersing the spectator in a view of their own: we look at scenes taking place on the Mediterranean seashore, while we are actually on the first floor of a typical XVIIth century canal-house. Numerous secrets and enigmas are concealed behind the ensemble’s unity. Initially painted for the Drakensteyn Castle in Lage Vuursche, their overall journey, from their initial location to their new home, with the adaptation and thorough restoration that they underwent, offers a myriad of poetical visual stories to tell; they trigger notions of identity, displacement, estrangement and nostalgia, recurrent in Stéphanie Saadé’s work. Here, she calls back the paintings’ beautiful “ghosts”: all the presently invisible parts which have been cut out, grafted, overpainted or interchanged, highlighting a rich and fascinating patchwork.

Language: English

© Stéphanie Saadé 2019

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