Anita van Doorn Gold and Silversmith

The cat's seat vs my seat in the workshop.

Drömmer du om en ateljé på Sockerbruket i Göteborg? Det gör jag! Jag skickar vidare åt en kompis, och fundera på att också gå med:-)

A beautiful documentation film made by Juan Carlos Poblete for the Undercurrents exhibition... check out undercurrents.se for more images and films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdB3ODelv20

In November 2019 I produced an exhibition and installation as part of the GIBCA (Gothenburg international biennial for contemporary art) extended program. There are many different people and facilitators I would like to thank. First, my co-artists Anna-Maria Saar and Rina Dedo. My amazing on-site volunteers, without whose help I could not have managed: Artiom Kosel and Attila Nagy. Jorge Alcaide, for the venue and help with installing the needed fixtures. Gibca and the city o...f Gothenburg for their financial support. Frei von Fräähsen zu Lorenzburg, for your invaluable and countless hours in designing and producing my beautiful invitations. Karl Holmqvist for translation. Martin Hollmer, also for translation, as well as playing a wonderfully eerie and atmospheric concert when our performance schedule could not go ahead as planned. Hindarfjäll, also for playing a spectacular concert that filled this underground "cathedral" with resounding and ancient nordic rhythmns and vibes. Special thanks to Juan Carlos Poblete for a beautirful short film documenting the installation, and to Björn Hansson for your generosity in providing an exceptional press release! Videos and images from the exhibition can be seen here https://anitavandoorn.weebly.com/gallery.html

The artist can project an image of the world as alienated and disjointed, a site of only victimization and terror. But the artist can also project an image of the world where the human touch comforts and redeems, where we make the world essentially humane. Such a project does not require difficult theories or grand monuments. An accumulation of small gestures will suffice, but each gesture must actually touch another person. A small gesture, like a pin, or a bracelet, or a ring (Bruce Metcalf, 1989). Alpine flower ring by Anita van Doorn.