DOORWAYS / MICHIEL KLUITERS
With Doorways, visual artist Michiel Kluiters (1971) investigates how space (or spatiality) works in photography and how it can become an instrument for narration. A series of photographed spaces open up a conversation and hint at intimate stories. Walls look creaked, roughly textured. They seem to address the hands instead of the eyes: they beg to be touched, to be stroked, to be felt. These spaces look like unfinished buildings or abandoned ruins, still under construction or already in decline. This introduction of a temporal sense – of something that is pointing towards a future completion or to a lingering memory of something that has irrevocably passed – adds to the inherent instability of these works. Are we looking at places that depict a possible dystopian future or the remnants of a utopian past?
Book information Photography Michiel Kluiters Text Maria Barnas, Steven Humblet, Design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder) Printer Zwaan Lenoir Size 24 x 32 cm Number of pages 128 Illustrations bl/w & fc Language English Binding softcover, Swiss binding with flaps Release date September 2022 Publisher Jap Sam Books ISBN 978-94-92852-60-1 Price €32.-
This publication has been made possible with the support of Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Stokroos and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
