Beholding
Fien Brakkee
3 December 2022 - 1 January 2023
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Beholding is a project about the wonder of looking. As a continuation of Fien Brakkees graduation work ‘a beginning’, she keeps on exploring the idea of resembleing a nothingness. In this work she plays around with light, shadow, movement and rythmn, to try and capture liminal space – somwhere in between it all, there where light touches shadow, where spaces becomes athmosphere, and where a void becomes something graspable. As always Fien is not really looking for answers, and through questioning she wonders:
Beholding is a project about the idea of an in-between space or a thin place. Spaces where the walls of the world feel a little weak, where all becoming nothing and the same. In this work Fien plays around with light, shadow and movement, to continues to try and resemble a nothingness – a space in which liminal athmosphere becomes something graspable. This work in process is a way for her to keep asking question about how we receive spaces that we might not see but feel and experience.
For some years now, Fien has lived in a caravan and sometimes she refers to that time as the time in which she learned how to see. Inspired by the grandness of the sky, the slow pace of changing light and the vastness of an empty horizon, Fien’s work is an exploration of the ungraspable, the ephemeral and the abstraction of the atmosphere surrounding us and of that which rests within us. In her practice she tries to create spaces, not with walls or a ceiling but with feelings, rhythms and sensations – spaces in which one has the peace to let everything go, not be in the future or the past but right here and now. Fien believes that if we pay attention to the world around us, it can help us connect back to a deeper part of ourselves that we might have lost track of in the busy world we live in.
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