THE REAL, VIDEO WORK, 2020

Photo series ‘THE REAL’ came into existence shortly after Badriah Hamelink suffered an almost fatal accident, resulting in a severe concussion. For over a year she was in rehabilitation, during which she was active creating digital montages on the basis of photographs of sculpture A11. The montages gave rise to the idea of creating a video with the work A11 in a 15m long water basin. 

The images she came up with are strikingly serene, due to their bilateral symmetry. They strive for formal and internal equanimity. This reworking old material seems to be a way of creating a new context for the artist’s past states of being. The reflection in the water points towards a questioning of the nature of reality, as if showing a parallel world. “This dualism and reversal, that previously was only inexplicitly present in my work, now becomes part of the method and of the message of my creation, reversing and feeding itself with itself.”

Title: [THE REAL], Material: Digital Montage, Video, Size: Unknown, 2020

music by Vanessa Amara ©

Link to video: https://vimeo.com/426594854