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Social Inventory – Space/Object Inventory.

Part of a series in which roadkill is being used for new purposes. Part of an ongoing research about unwanted objects or phenomena that exist or occur like side-effects such as roadkill, within our neoliberal system. I am trying to turn the unwanted into a commodity, something that people could possibly want, even if it is as a photograph.

We, the modern ones.

Space/Object research, that sometimes amounts to autonomous sculptures or installations. I like the equation of play and violence. In your studio, you often play, you process things that you’ve witnessed outside of your artificial studio environment. We, the modern ones, are violent people who are rather rapidly destroying this planet. What are our intentions? The perverse and pleasurable are combined in discovering our own limits of order. They seem to take turns in our lives, because the reality of death is what we try to avoid. In this series I’m looking into materialized forms of this reality.

  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 1. (II) Colour photograph.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 2. (II) Colour photograph.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 5. (III) Colour photograph.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 5. (II) Colour photograph.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 4. (II) Colour photograph/sculpture (styrofoam, taxidermy.) The swan was found near a highway within one km. of the Kunstroute where it was eventually presented as a sculpture. The styrofoam was collected from a factory nearby.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 4. (I) Colour photograph/sculpture (styrofoam, taxidermy.) The swan was found near a highway within one km. of the Kunstroute where it was eventually presented as a sculpture. The styrofoam was collected from a factory nearby.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 4. (III) Colour photograph/sculpture (styrofoam, taxidermy.) The swan was found near a highway within one km. of the Kunstroute where it was eventually presented as a sculpture. The styrofoam was collected from a factory nearby.
  • The Roadkill series. Untitled, no 3. (I) The rhinoceros was bought at the ACTION, a chain of discount stores. Colour photograph. Statement of the ACTION store on their website: 'ACTION staat bekend om het verrassende en volledige assortiment met verbazend lage prijzen. Het sterk wisselende assortiment van ACTION is breed en omvat huishoud, kantoorartikelen, cosmetica, voedingswaren, speelgoed, textiel, glas, porselein en aardewerk, seizoen, decoratief en doe-het-zelf. Wekelijks komen in onze winkels zo’n 100 tot 150 nieuwe artikelen binnen. Aarzelen om te kopen betekent vaak een gemiste kans! Grootschalige inkoop, een optimale distributie en een kostenbewuste bedrijfscultuur zorgen voor zeer lage consumentenprijzen. Het snel wisselende assortiment in combinatie met zeer lage prijzen zorgt voor een grote binding met de consument. Lekker funshoppen, lage prijs en goede kwaliteit maakt dat vele consumenten Action meerdere keren per week bezoeken. De winkels worden dagelijks bevoorraad om een zo volledig mogelijk assortiment aan te kunnen bieden. ACTION weet haar missie dagelijks waar te maken: “ACTION is de meest succesvolle en leukste non-food discount winkelketen met een verbazend voordelig en continue verrassend assortiment. ACTION heeft trotse medewerkers en staat midden in de samenleving”.'
  • The Roadkill series. We are turning Frogs into Monkeys, no 17. out of 154. Colour photograph of a roadkill frog taken from a large collection of roadkill frogs found in Vietnam, Mexico, The Netherlands, USA and Germany.
  • The Roadkill series. We are turning Frogs into Monkeys, no 23. out of 154. Colour photograph of a roadkill frog taken from a large collection of roadkill frogs found in Vietnam, Mexico, The Netherlands, USA and Germany.