Path: Suspended Children


In front of the Hoogkoor , in the Middenschip of the church, the work Suspended Children was to be found. A spiralling work that consisted of mirrored panels and hand-painted banners depicting children playing. The mirrors multiplied the banners, playing with spatial perception. Without context, the figures seemed to be floating in midair. The mirrors referred to an old West-African religious tradition of hanging mirrors and bottles on trees. A tradition that continued in the Americas after the Transatlantic slave trade.

Artist Obá, Antonio 
Period 21st century
(2022)

Path: Suspended Children

In front of the Hoogkoor , in the Middenschip of the church, the work Suspended Children was to be found. A spiralling work that consisted of mirrored panels and hand-painted banners depicting children playing. The mirrors multiplied the banners, playing with spatial perception. Without context, the figures seemed to be floating in midair. The mirrors referred to an old West-African religious tradition of hanging mirrors and bottles on trees. A tradition that continued in the Americas after the Transatlantic slave trade.

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Oude kerk Adlib Collect priref 2536