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'Stylized cigar smoke', 2009
ca 60 x 75 cm, 3 parts
printed text, three photos

Stylized cigar smoke.
To people who use style and words in their métier - like stylists, writers, journalists, poets - there is a direct link
between the stylized shapes of the cigar smoke they exhale and the style they use in their works in progress.



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'Dear torcedors', 2009
ca 60 x 75 cm, 3 parts
printed text, drawings


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'Stored sentences', 2009
ca 50 x 75 cm, 2 parts
printed text, drawing on digital print

Secret export of stories.

In Cuba specialized readers still read aloud chapters from books
and newspaper articles on a daily basis.
These words echo through the factories and are subsequently rolled
into the cigars with great precision by the torcedors.
We are dealing here with an infinite amount of words
stacked into the cigars, waiting to come to life again when they are heated.
When the cigar is lit,
the words are detached from the leaves
as they are sucked into the smoker's mouth.
In this way, traveling on the smoke, they enter the heads of writers
at the other side of the world.
Words are blown out and sucked into the nose again,
where they directly enter the brain.
A fraction of a second later the smoker will think these very words
that settle in his mind.




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'Waiting Words', 2009
installation with box of Havana cigars, digital print with handwritten text: 'Secret export of stories'
certificate with instructions



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'Investigation selling Cuban cigars', 2009
ca 55 x 55 cm
pencil on paper, digital prints, 4 parts



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'Thunder in August, shows the right bottom of a tiger', 2009
ca 80 x 104 cm
pencil on photographic print



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'Rice, alley and stones in orbit', 2009
ca 0 x 0 cm
pencil on photographic print



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'Artist's frequent yawning', 2009
pencil, acrylic paint, crayon on paper



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exhibition view 'Transport of images', 2005



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'Non-integratie van Moslimverkopers!', 2009
122 x 163 cm
pencil on mat printed photo



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Ik kan bijna niet denken als ik stilsta / It is hardly possible to think when I stand still, 2005
17 x 50 x 8,5 cm
display in wooden case



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'Transport of images', 2005
installation
left: view solo exhibition Galerie van Gelder 2005 / right: view solo stand Art Amsterdam 2009

details of installation:





Transport of images via your forefinger

(both drawing and text print in wooden frame)



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'Snoertheorie', 2003
drawings on photo, 21 x 30 cm, 7parts



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'Party 3', 2003
21 x 30 cm, drawing on grey paper



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'Before the party', 2000
93,5 x 68 cm, drawing on photo, frame


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'Leftovers (after the party)', 2000
156,5 x 130 cm, drawing on photo, aluminum


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'Mistwandelingen in 5 gradaties' 1996 / Voebe de Gruyter

'Mistwandelingen in 5 gradaties', 1996
('Mistwalks in 5 gradations')
79 x 178 x 89 cm, mixed media