Tempus

Featuring new and existing photographic work, Awoiska van der Molen’s solo exhibition, TEMPUS, invites you to pause and lose track of time. TEMPUS runs from February 17 to June 10, 2019, in the Rabozaal of Museum Kranenburgh.

Landscape
For the past ten years, Van der Molen has captured nature. The black-and-white photographs of mountains, forests, and bodies of water are abstracted representations of the landscapes she seeks out and experiences in remote areas. She mentally peels these back, layer by layer, searching for the essence of the place and the moment. The experiences she gains during these deeply personal quests are translated into her analog images. Without titles or location designations, the gelatin silver prints remain open to various interpretations. The longing for a true core in both nature and humanity itself is universal and deeply human. Face to face with Awoiska van der Molen’s seemingly untouched landscapes, we can’t help but be reminded of purity, untouchedness, and originality.

Time

Awoiska van der Molen’s work is rooted in the tradition of analog photography. The photographs are hand-printed in the darkroom, where the intimate, labor-intensive sequence of slow processes continues. Van der Molen’s often dark barium prints reveal mysterious contrasts between darkness and light. Notions of time, space, and distance seem nonexistent. The images exude a remarkable stillness. The seemingly immovable eternity of the landscapes where Van der Molen resides is palpable in the final photographs. Her work touches on our longing for something unchangeable: a dreamed-of certainty about something that will always remain, in a world where much seems to be at risk.

Awoiska van der Molen

Awoiska van der Molen (Groningen, 1972) lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at Pier24 Photography in San Francisco, Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, FoMu in Antwerp, and the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Her first major solo exhibition was at Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam in 2016.

TEMPUS is co-curated by Marie Stel.