Portraits of a Gym

  • Gym of Ellecom, film 10

  • Gym outside

  • Gym inside

  • Pinhole photos from the 'Gym' project in the 'Toxic Bunker' exhibition, colaboration with Aracelly Scheper, compiled by Mirka Farabegoli. Photo: Jeroen Huisman

  • Part of the exhibition in Gallery 38

  • The series was also exhibited in Pleinkamer, the Bookstore Foundation in Amsterdam.

  • A series of portraits of passers-by using a pinhole camera. Average exposure time was 20 seconds. The series could be seen through the window in the front room.

The gym in Ellecom is a structure made by nazi occupants during World War II. In collaboration with Aracelly Scheper, the strange feeling of history, memories and emptiness are captured by pinhole cameras. In March 2020 they presented the prints in an exhibition and a publication with stories and hand developed photographs. Here you can read more about pinhole photography. Here you read an article in the newspaper de Gelderlander (Dutch)

The series was also exhibited in Pleinkamer, the Bookstore Foundation in Amsterdam. There, Aracelly and carel also made a series of portraits of passers-by with a pinhole camera. Average exposure time was 20 seconds. The series could be seen through the window in the front room.

Year / Years:

2019

Collection:

Courtesy of the artist