With Luuk Wilmering / Otto Snoek / Ronald Cornelissen / Frank Vande Veire – Pictura Dordrecht – 2025
This exhibition explores how the age-old human desire to form close-knit communities today often takes on grotesque and violence-laden forms. This theme is illuminated through photographs, collages, spatial works, and drawings by Luuk Wilmering, Otto Snoek, and Ronald Cornelissen. Frank Vande Veire contributes an essay that resonates with the themes of the exhibition. His text is deliberately not a theoretical reflection on the artworks and will be available in printed form.
Luuk Wilmering’s collages examine national identity, history, and the tensions between progress and tradition.
Through raw, detailed street photography, Otto Snoek lays bare the joyless mechanisms and brazen surfaces of the spectacular society and its populist impulses.
In his series of drawings, Cornelissen portrays the inflated myths of the countryside and the grotesque dichotomy between city and countryside.
In his essay, Frank Vande Veire attempts to articulate the damage caused by our longing for identity.
Souvenirs, a presentation of multiples and books by Luuk Wilmering, Otto Snoek, Frank Vande Veire and myself was on view in the Foyer.
Many thanks to Frank Koolen for his performance during the opening of the exhibition.
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