Under Erasure
2022, exhibition 1646 Experimental Art Space, The Hague
The seeds of the “wood that weeps” were smuggled from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, where old forest communication networks were destroyed to make way for rubber plantations generating silences that would linger for generations. Meanwhile, filmmakers passed by and revealed themselves through the images they produced. A female character was fabricated and later removed from a film, leaving only the nitrate filmrol as a material witness to expose her disposal.
Rubber Falls Into A Form
multiple projection video installation, sound
Trees and other witnesses are evoked in poetic forensics across time, connecting dots between the intimate histories of rubber, exploitation of women, early Dutch cinema, and other narrative machines which shaped and erased the experiences of those who produced the profits of the Dutch 20th-century plantationoscene.
Removed
single screen video installation, sound, HD 16:9, 15’48 loop
Six women silently read and then describe the content of the deleted scenes from the Dutch pre-war fiction film Rubber. The original content of these scenes, of which the omission went unnoticed in cinema history, was recovered by the artist when she discovered a forgotten dialogue transcript. In Removed, the scenes are reconstructed only through the women’s subjective descriptions. In doing so, the work proposes resistance to the gendered violence of the original fiction and offers glimpses of how the erased realities at its source travel across generations.
Under Erasure is part of the ongoing research project Missing Scenes: on Rubber and Erasure.
Supported by: Gemeente Den Haag, Fonds 1818, Stokroos Foundation, Danish Art Foundation, Tijl Fonds, Eye Film Museum, Institute for Sound and Vision, near/by film, Stroom, 1646.
2022, exhibition 1646 Experimental Art Space, The Hague
The seeds of the “wood that weeps” were smuggled from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, where old forest communication networks were destroyed to make way for rubber plantations generating silences that would linger for generations. Meanwhile, filmmakers passed by and revealed themselves through the images they produced. A female character was fabricated and later removed from a film, leaving only the nitrate filmrol as a material witness to expose her disposal.
Rubber Falls Into A Form
multiple projection video installation, sound
Trees and other witnesses are evoked in poetic forensics across time, connecting dots between the intimate histories of rubber, exploitation of women, early Dutch cinema, and other narrative machines which shaped and erased the experiences of those who produced the profits of the Dutch 20th-century plantationoscene.
Removed
single screen video installation, sound, HD 16:9, 15’48 loop
Six women silently read and then describe the content of the deleted scenes from the Dutch pre-war fiction film Rubber. The original content of these scenes, of which the omission went unnoticed in cinema history, was recovered by the artist when she discovered a forgotten dialogue transcript. In Removed, the scenes are reconstructed only through the women’s subjective descriptions. In doing so, the work proposes resistance to the gendered violence of the original fiction and offers glimpses of how the erased realities at its source travel across generations.
Under Erasure is part of the ongoing research project Missing Scenes: on Rubber and Erasure.
Supported by: Gemeente Den Haag, Fonds 1818, Stokroos Foundation, Danish Art Foundation, Tijl Fonds, Eye Film Museum, Institute for Sound and Vision, near/by film, Stroom, 1646.