Photos by Andrei Tchernikov
Installation view with Totems, 2015, 15 charcoal drawings, each 200x150 cm, and Ruimte III Rockin by Peter Vink
The exhibition presented my large-scale charcoal drawings alongside Ruimte III Rockin, a light sculpture by Peter Vink.
Since 1998, I have worked on charcoal drawings of everyday and technological objects—floppy disks, switches, data cables, hard drives—each dramatically isolated and magnified.
Through this transformation, these once-familiar items take on new, almost human qualities. Cables become totems or sacred artifacts of imagined rituals, while enlarged hard drives resemble mausoleums or libraries—graveyards where data is preserved, perhaps indefinitely.
My practice explores the human desire for connection, our evolving physicality, and the systems of power we construct and sustain. By using charcoal—the earliest drawing medium, rooted in prehistoric cave art—I bridged ancient mark-making with contemporary information-transfer technologies.
This exhibition offered a retrospective view of my charcoal work, including drawings shown to the public for the first time.
Lacie, 2016, charcoal on paper, 250x150 cm, Zip, 2001, and Floppy, 2001, charcoal on paper, each 200x150 cm
Zip, 2001, and Floppy, 2001, charcoal on paper, each 200x150 cm
Floppy, 2001, charcoal on paper, 200x150 cm, and Switch, 2025, charcoal on paper, 72x102 cm, framed
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Installation view with Ruimte III Rockin by Peter Vink
Practice of Silence II, 2016-25, animation projection on charcoal drawing, 150x250 cm, sound
Transition, 2016, charcoal on paper, 150x500 cm, and Hard Drive I, 2017, charcoal on paper, 150x250 cm
