Battleground Group lll : Figments of melancholic soil
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
243 x 800 cm
Battleground Group lll : Fragments in Bloom
2024
Acrylic on fabric
dimensions variable
Battleground Group lll Nr.01: Oh dear
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cm
Battle Ground
2023
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground Group lll Nr.02 : Your absence is blooming
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cm
Battle Ground
2023
Oil, acrylic on canvas
Battle Ground
Battleground explores the psychological landscape of war, confronts anxiety by juxtaposing it with the beauty of nature, and leads to thinking about the delicate balance between chaos and tranquility.
Battleground is ‘a space where hidden troubles protrude sharply’ and ‘a space filled with the energy of quiet explosion’. The geometric shapes of triangles and squares and artificial sculptures in the paintings are signs warning of land mines, warning signs at various military facilities, bunkers for war, and lines that should not be crossed. Situations where warning signs such as thin triangle and square marks on the battle ground appear to be colorfully pasted, landscapes exploding abstractly with colorful lights, and wall painting images depicting 'dancing ancestors', 'cats', 'women', etc., don’t look threatening. By overlapping these thoughts and narratives and expressing them metaphorically through the painting and the process, a psychological buffer zone that desires peaceful neutrality despite the presence of chaos is revealed, and this is depicted as a materialized landscape where fact and abstraction are mixed.
I hope you are okay
𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
2023
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.01
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.02
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.03
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.04
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.05
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmBattleground series, GroupII Nr.06
2024
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cmLandscape from our ancestress
2023
Oil on canvas
70 x 200 cm
Land of winds
2024
Oil on canvas
Don’t panic in the battleground
2023
Oil on canvas
Exhibition View
Battleground(@Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2024) / (@Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea 2024)
I Still Care (@Eurocenter 14 July- 11 August 2023) is an art group exhibition dedicated to care and dare to care. It is about how we humans remain vulnerable, resourceful, and caring in front of the potential world-climate collapse. Invited artists are addressing the world-climate in an open context including natural, cultural, geopolitical, and mental atmospheric conditions prevailing in our time. We are inspecting the climate collapse from an elastic point of view, offering an alternative world and artistic mind space to forecast the future, based on the assumption that the majority of the human still care about the earth and each other. And we, fully human, who care, are still committed and ready to mend the damage, heal the wound and care for the lost. Curated by Wumen
Positions : Soft Intimacies (@Stroom Den Haag 2024) is a group exhibition by five artists from The Hague – Eugenie Boon, Yaïr Callender, Haevan Lee, Farah Rahman and Amber Toorop – who work at the intersection of spirituality, ecology, cultural heritage and oral history. At visual arts center Stroom Den Haag they invite visitors to explore the ambiguity of personal and collective ways of remembering. Curated by Leana Boven