"Her space, my moment" is a work of 10 x 10 cm that has it's origine in the artist in residence in Pecsbagota, Hongary (klick here for info about it).

The work contains a photograph on mdf, moulded in epoxy.

On the pthoto there is a part of a woman, who is wearing a neclace in the light of the window.

This scene took place in the ruined house of the late Roma woman Rozsa Neni; I dressed up in her belongings.

The neclace I made from electricity wires, that where stored in a huge bag in the attic of the house; Rozsa Neni's husband once used to twine fancy vases of them. The climbing-plant that had been groing trough the broken window gave me the idea: like a climbing-plant that's using it's stems to curl around everything to get grip, I curled the the wires, around nails in the old house.

I see a link between graceful climbing-plants like convolvulus arvensis, that is seen by farmers as an unpopulair weed, and the Roma, that are not very welcome in quite some countries.

With this work I gained the Jacob Hartog Award 2011, to my great joy. The work is showed from April the 9th to May the 1th at Pulchri Studio in The Hague, during the member exhibition Voorjaarssalon.