Two hands joined together in an eternal handshake.
A tool or a weapon. Each the other’s reciprocal reference.
Originally kinetic, the handshake swung through the gallery. It now rests on a shiny plinth in the entrance hall of the Rechtbank Amsterdam
The handshake is the oldest contract there is, older than signature and older than seal, and this one stands on the boundary: between the court and the city it serves, visible from both sides of the glass.
The work was first exhibited alongside a digital animation composed of sliced handshakes, shaking into one another, drawn from images gathered across time. This collection forms an ongoing archive of a gesture endlessly repeated, yet never quite the same. The archive continues to grow.
Many thanks to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Originally kinetic, the handshake swung through the gallery. It now rests on a shiny plinth in the entrance hall of the Rechtbank Amsterdam
The handshake is the oldest contract there is, older than signature and older than seal, and this one stands on the boundary: between the court and the city it serves, visible from both sides of the glass.
The work was first exhibited alongside a digital animation composed of sliced handshakes, shaking into one another, drawn from images gathered across time. This collection forms an ongoing archive of a gesture endlessly repeated, yet never quite the same. The archive continues to grow.
Many thanks to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Collection
Held in the public collection of the Rechtbank Amsterdam, the new Amsterdam Courthouse on the Zuidas designed by KAAN Architecten and was completed in 2020.
Rijksakademie
The work was made during my residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. A related forty-minute ongoing digital animation with sound was presented at the ICA, London, in 2018.
Held in the public collection of the Rechtbank Amsterdam, the new Amsterdam Courthouse on the Zuidas designed by KAAN Architecten and was completed in 2020.
Rijksakademie
The work was made during my residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. A related forty-minute ongoing digital animation with sound was presented at the ICA, London, in 2018.