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Katja van den Eijnden, a visual storyteller/ activist, is showing a site specific installation, of two apparently disconnected works, Typographus(nature) and Scapes(culture) at Manifestations, Veemgebouw. Katja wants viewers to be conscious about (waste)materials. Always with a sence of wonder.
Scapes and Typographus
The site specific – installation, contains two apparently disconnected works, Typographus (nature) and Scapes (culture), seeking to communicate with each other and the viewer. Scapes is an installation of multiple circles, covered in plastic scales, hanging low from the ceiling, illuminated and moving, like a living organism. With this work She wants to evoke a feeling of wonder, emotion and lightness. Guests can walk around, under and (almost) touch it. Typographus consist of a tree, eaten by the typographus (bark beetle). To emphasize these natural gluttonous spores, looking like calligraphic signs, are “inlaid with gold”.
Visual storyteller and activist.
Katja van de Eijnden is a visual storyteller and activist. Dedicated to an ongoing research towards more consciousness and different approach to (waste)materials. She wants to challenge the viewer to think more about recycling and new (design)applications. She is always looking for possibilities in materials, techniques and spaces.
Communication?
Humans take up to much space, want to much from our earth? Always pursuing growth, despite the costs to the earth. Humans decide. And what about other lifeforms… Gluttony by nature and humans(culture), but wait, are we not both nature!? A friendly organism, made of plastic waste and a tree eaten away by beetles. What do they tell each other and us?
