Karien van Assendelft

Secret Garden

Artist Karien van Assendelft works with language and wordplay. Meanings that we know, she sticks on images that represent a different meaning.

The work Secret Garden consists of a series of 13 photos placed in light boxes. The work was made for a relatively dark corridor that leads to the bicycle shed. It is a connection between inside and outside; The photos symbolize a forest of trees; like a secret garden in a building. In the work, human characteristics are assigned to different types of trees. The different typologies are visible in a legend accompanying the work. The pedunculate oak is mighty; the white Eel (Poplar) is intellectual, the oyster mushroom is misleading and the ANWB mushroom nostalgic; the Hazel surprising and the Silver Birch elegant.

Karien van Assendelft (1966) - Secret Garden, 2008
Digital color prints, light boxes.

This work is not publicly accessible.