08/10/2019 - 12/01/2020
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Eva Spierenburg's work for this room with glass walls can be seen as an installation, but also as a collection of separate works; comparable to how a body consists of separate limbs. The presentation is intensified by her use of colour, which are often pale, natural skin colours. Besides the traces of her body, the manner of presentation is suggestive of a ritual or the religious custom of attentive exposition, as if we are viewing relics.
Physicality is omnipresent in Eva Spierenburg’s work. Whether it is the visualization of separate body parts, in abstract form of highly concrete, or of objects that stand in some relation to our body: the whole room is suffused with a sense of the body.
- excerpt exhibition text by Bart Rutten
performer: Sophia Dinkel
photo 1, 2, 4, 9, 10 by Jan-Kees Steenman
