On keeping a notebook @ Galerie Noord

5 APRIL 2025 – 1 MAY 2025

“For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable ‘I’ “, Joan Didion

Gabrielle Kroese engages in colour research in the immediate natural habitat of a particular place. In fact she abstracts what is naturally present into colour capsules. In this way she wants to slow down looking and thereby intensify it. A ’slow watching’ you might say. In On keeping a notebook, Kroese shows two projects.

The Sierra de Maria Colour Dictionary is a research project to create a colour dictionary of a specific place: the Sierra de Maria in Andalusia. The 33 colour capsules of this project contain 66 different colours from the surroundings of the mountain range. The project also includes two special soundscapes, a new magazine and a special expo print.

The Summer Garden Series is a series of painted prints of a bouquet of flowers from Kroeses own garden. In the series, she works from the feeling of being connected to a tradition that spans generations. By painting a grid of white dots over the image, she disturbs or enhances or protects it.

 

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