Inertia
Albert van Westing
Rest, stillness, attention and intimacy are crucial in the photographic works of Albert van Westing. We see people engaged in everyday activities: writing, reading, sitting, eating. Small activities, which nevertheless require concentration in order to be performed. That’s why Van Westing’s characters are seemingly absent to their surroundings while they are performing their activities. And we may look at them, identifying with their lovely state of inertia.
For making his work Van Westing combines photographic with reprographic technics. By reproducing many times the photographic image Van Westing adds time to the 1/60 second of the photographic moment.
For the Inertia exhibition in the Freud’s Dreams Museum Van Westing made ‘Writing’, a print on half transparant polyester. The work was made to fit the wall of the corridor opposite of the entrance to the Freud’s Dreams Museum.
Albert van Westing (NL, 1960) studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He lives and works in Amsterdam and has had major solo- and group exhibitions, amongst others at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2002), Canal de Isabel II -Madrid (2000), European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2002) -Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2003) - Villa Massimo, Rome (2004) - Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague (2006).
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Albert van Westing, Writing, 2006
195 x 330 cm
corridor Freud’s Dreams Museum
Writing (detail)
Инерция
Inertia St. Petersburg 2006