The earth has a skin called sand.
A skin that hungers, moves, and bears traces.
When she is touched by the wind, she ripples into a fleeting mountain.
When the waves make her tremble, you hear a slow heartbeat in the depths.
When a body touches her, she preserves the encounter.
When I try to capture her vulnerability, she escapes.
In the exhibition 'Zandhonger' (Sand Hunger), Eva Spierenburg approaches the local landscape as a living body. During a residency in Burgh-Haamstede she worked at various locations in the dunes. With paintings, ‘dune skins’, and a sound piece developed in collaboration with Janneke van der Putten, the installation forms an interplay of image, material, and sound.
The title Zandhonger refers to a phenomenon in which natural processes along the coast fall out of balance. Due to human interventions, such as the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier, less sand is deposited while sand continues to dissapear into the sea. The title evokes the image of a landscape with needs, as if the earth itself is hungry. From this perspective, Spierenburg invites a different way of looking: more attentive, more sensory, and with a greater awareness of the earth beneath our feet.
