The installation was asked to be reinstalled during the festival in M.L. Kingpark in Amsterdam. See pictures below. This was done with the assistance of Suus Hartendorp and Jesse van de Beek. The installation was made with the use of real moss and plants.
Author Archives: Madelief van de Beek
The week long residency took place in the Abbey Ulingsheide which is largely deserted. The work ‘Als alles zwijgt’ is my final outcome of the residency, and was presented during the one-day exhibition at the abbey. This residency also includes a research diary which can be seen on the Research Catalogue website (see link at …
Madelief van de Beek made the sand sculpture with sand of her mother’s grave. She created the work in the same week of her mother’s birthday. Her mother would have turned 59, but died on age 57.
Art video made for the collection and ongoing research by the name: ‘Fuck. Volgens mij doe ik rouw verkeerd’. The Artist’s way to contextualise her feelings of bereavement at a young age
The work: ‘Yours, Death’ is a video installation at Haven Festival IJmuiden (2024), in which the audience is taken in theatrical flight to a place of active grief. Real lavender plants placed inside the installation; accompanied the text and gave a more sensorial experience to the viewers. The audience walked around the container with wireless headphones, so …
‘Memento Object’ is a goodbye performance/ritual, performed on the last day of the exhibited, spacial work: ‘Object Mori’. During the performance, all the objects placed by the audience during the days prior, are being packed up again. Candles are being lit in remembrance of the objects gone. This changed lighting; highlighted the embroidered names in the cloth evenmore.
‘In the shadow of loss… stands a room that houses grief. A room that provides a space in which to contemplate lives passed. A place to say goodbye at one’s own pace. Death can not alter any memories. It can only make them more meaningful’. The audience is asked to choose an object from the …
At the festival’s heart: De Vishal, and across Haarlem city, the flowers are to be discovered in public urinals. This work raises awareness about how the public space is still primarily designed for able-bodied males. The work got stolen, vandalized, and pied on during the two day festival… The responses to the installation, show how …
I was confronted daily with the feeling of having to “say goodbye” repeatedly. I felt the need to give shape to these feelings. I got inspired by the play ‘Funeral’ (the play theatre collective: Brakke Grond, directed by Alexander Devriendt), in which the scene where I had to throw a handful of confetti in the …
Art installaties with flowers