Fundament — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo

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INSTALLATIONS & ART
RESARCH, WORKSHOPS & WRITINGS
ANIMATED PROJECTS

BIO

I am a Dutch artist whose practice combines making and thinking. Through installations, essays, and collaborative projects, I explore how art can open space for ethical reflection and collective experience. Alongside my practice I teach at St. Joost School of Art & Design and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). I am also part of YAFF, an artists’ collective.

Overview

Pan Colon(s)
Bottles
Thinking Landscape #2
A Moral Anatomy of an Artichoke
Living Statistic #7 - Fixed Fiction
Border of Europe
The Blame Game
Fundament & Thinking Landscape #1
I am Water
Song for the Earth
Salt of the Earth
Art is Our Only Hope

Animation overview

Little Flake, Little Hair, Little Booger
None of this was my choice (I)
None of this was my choice (II)
What makes falling so appealing
Deep blue
My heart is a forest
A State of Nature
A Cosmic Anxiety

Installations & artworks

Fundament
Corten steel and steel
130 (W) x 200 (D) x 70 (H)

(2020)

This artwork is inspired by the transformation and spatial development of a natural area near Vessem. In this process, the river has been restored to a meandering course after being straightened since the 1970s due to intensive agriculture, which disrupted the natural landscape. The Fundament represents human impact on the landscape. The steel map weaves together the old and new river courses. This two-part artwork comprises an engraving, created during the workshop A Thinking Landscape with various stakeholders and an object made of stainless and corten steel that reflects both the transformation and the landscape’s memory.

Part of Land Art route in Vessem as part of Land Art in the Beerzedal