A Tangled Tale by Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1997
 
wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff


About 100 batiked strips of cloth.
150 x 50 x 50 cm.

Sections from stories about real and metaphysical stories in New Zealand Maori, Dutch and English.
The sections in Maori and English come from
The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera and the text in Dutch is Gedenktekens, a story I wrote.
At the top of the form the strips are plaited and then hang in a more or less random order so that the order of reading is determined partly by chance and by the letters that the participant maybe recognize and take in her hands to read.
wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff

wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff
wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff

back to the story
terug naar het verhaal

wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Shown:
2001: During the Open Studios weekend, De Waag, Leiden.
2000: Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand.
1997: Old Bonnenfanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.


wall sculpture by Sonja van Kerkhoff
In De Waag (The Exchange), Leiden, 2001.

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