Caroline Walker : windows / essay, Benno Tempel ; teksten, Jorien de Vries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tempel, Benno, writer of supplementary textual content.

Vries, Jorien de, writer of supplementary textual content.

Walker, Caroline, 1982- artist.

GEM (Museum), host institution.

Series:

GRIMM ; 05

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Walker, Caroline, 1982---Exhibitions.

Walker, Caroline.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

102 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : GRIMM, [2021]

Summary:

Caroline Walker records daily lives of the women around her on large canvases and small panels, zooming in on fleeting moments that are neither entirely private nor public, with a refined sense of light and colour. Her subjects range from her own young daughter in the living room at home to a maid in an anonymous hotel suite, portrayed in filmic scenes that we observe through windows, passageways or in reflections. In Windows at KM21, Walker's first solo museum show, she will explore themes like privacy and voyeurism from an engaged perspective. Snapshots, often taken in secret, provide the basis for Walker's oil paintings. Although her paintings suggest all kinds of scenarios, they are never fully revealed. We are left to guess as to what happens before and after the carefully captured moment, what the atmosphere is like, and what the body language of a character is telling us. The scenes are remote in some sense, but for Walker they are sometimes extremely personal. As well as her daughter, she has also painted several portraits featuring her mother.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at KM21 (formerly GEM), The Hague, The Netherlands, August 28-November 28, 2021.

ISBN:

9789083188812

9083188817

9789083188829

9083188825

OCLC:

1288320647