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From my diary:
Friday, 9 May 2008 - Korte Noordstraat 1
A.'s friend - aged 12 - comes to play with us for the first time. When I let him in, he looks into our hall and says: 'Gee, your hall is even bigger than our living room'.
For years I left Middelburg early every morning to go to the ‘orher side’: to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
Now a days there is a tunnel under the Wester Scheldt; in those days you sailed by car ferry from Vlissingen to Breskens.
So, I parked the car on the premises in Vlissingen, went to the ferry in order to drive in Breskens with colleagues in a shared car to Aardenburg, the place where I worked.
The transit space to the ferry has always held a
The transit space to the ferry has always held a special place in my heart. Unlike the anonymous space, the contacts with everyone who regula
burg, the place where I worked.
The transit space to the ferry has always held a special place in my heart; I wrote a small essay about it on the occasion of a farewell to work in Aardenburg organized in Paris by my dear colleagues. Because, unlike the anonymous space, the contacts with everyone who regularly stayed there were warm, reciprocal and solicitous. The bleakness that the 'architecture' evoked, the lack of social context, etc. apparently did not prevent contact (before the advent of social media).
Whenever I am confronted in the 'now' with necessary architecture to open up a building, it takes me back to the image of the transition space at the Vlissingen Breskens car ferry.
From the gaze of "transit space," I look not only at corridors, but also at aisles that channel traffic flows in (super)markets, (semi)public buildings such as libraries, schools, town halls, etc.; architectural interventions that seemingly casually also discipline.
In short: the corridor/hallway reveals in a seemingly simple way the complex relationship between architecture, society and also behaviour in the modern world. The hall and corridor can thus be seen as spaces that mark boundaries. Like the concept of thresholds, halls and corridors thus embody a state of limitation - a threshold between one state of being and another.
The corridor, as an in-between space, prompts to think about concepts of transition, social (in)equality, culture identity, historical stratification, (cultural) valuation, etc.
These categories form the "coaster" of this concept.
The corridor, as an in-between space, prompts us unl
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2024 | continuation
Meursault | La léproserie de Meursault | May 1st
2024
Veynes | SuperU | April 25
Sisteron | Rue du Commandant Wilmart | April 25
Carrefour market | St. Bonnet Champsaur | April 24
SuperU | Saint Germain Lembron | April 18
InterSupermarché | Issoire | April 13
la Basilique de l’Abbaye de Fleury | Saint Benoit sur LoireFR | April 12
La Boverie / Bill Viola | Luik/LiègeBE | March 30
Bonnefanten Museum | Maastricht | March 29
Blanckthys Hotel Voeren | ’s-Gravenvoeren | March 28
art space Bewaerschole | Burgh-Haamstede | March 1
ADRZ - second floor | Goes | February 21
Brouwerspoort | installation art work Giel Louws | Middelburg | February 14
West Kapelle | February 4
ADRZ Hospital - surgery | Goes & Flushing | January 22
Verbeke Foundation | KemzekeBE | January 20
ADRZ Hospital - surgery | Flushing | January 16
2023
Burgerweidestraat / Langevieleweg | Middelburg | December 13
Lange Noordstraat 57-59 | Middelburg | dépendance ruimteCAESUUR | December 12
ADRZ Hospital - gastronomy | Goes | December 11
Elaya Hotel | KleveBRD | December 3
Kunstverein Projektraum Bahnhof25 | KleveBRD | November 6
Cinema Middelburg | Anselm / Wenders | November 02
Praxis | Middelburg | October 20
Jacob Klaaijsenstraat #5 | Goes | project EEJ! / André Smits | Oct0ber 15
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ADRZ - blood testing station | Middelburg | October 11
Gamma | Vlissingen | October 9
Studio complex G.H.L. | Middelburg | Unfinished Past Time, Kees de Valk | October 6
Erasmus Hospital | central hall / hall to exit Zimmermanweg | Rotterdam | September 25
Kaufland | KleveBRD | September 22
Museum Kurhaus | KleveBRD | September 22
Abbey Complex – Graphic Arts Fair | Middelburg | September 16
ADRZ Hospital - Gynaecology | Goes | September 14
Edeka | WendfortBRD | September 05
ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art | AarhusDK | September 01
Juxtapose Art Fair | AarhusDK | September 01
føtex food | EgåDK | August 30
Netto | EgåDK | August 28
Hospital Rivierenland ( P.S.&H.v.L. ) | Tiel | August 28
Radisson | AarhusDK | August 27
Edeka – Martens | AmmersbekBRD | August 26
Flat Beekloh | AmmersbekBRD | August 25
Hotel Waldschlößchen | LienenBRD | August 24
Het Walchers Zorgknooppunt | Krooneveldweg 6 | Middelburg | August 22
Urban Art Gallery Middelburg | Lange Noordstraat 66 | August 19
SmithArt | Singelstraat 13 | Middelburg | August 19
studio complex Kipvis | Flushing | August 17
ADRZ Hospital - nephrology | Goes | August 16
2023 | continuation
Muhka | Arwerp | August 11
Marché couvert à 15 Rue d'Estrées | Metz | Augus 2
Ibis Metz Technopôle | April 7
Chair Bar de Vin 66 | Place Beaune | April 9
l'abbaye de Cluny | Carrefour | Beaune | Rue de Charles de Gaulle | April 10
Hotel Athanor Centre | Beaune | E.Leclerc Champagnole | April 11
Appartement | Chaux-des-Crotenay | 5 Route du Chavon | April 14
Epicerie | Pont de Chaux | Grande Rue | April 15
Supermarché in Poligny | Ibis Reims Centre | 28 boulevard Joffre | April 16
2022
Hotel RockyPop Chamonix | Les Houches | September 9
Ibis Reims Centre Gare | September 6
Supermarché in Poligny | Ibis Reims Centre | 28 boulevard Joffre | April 16
Carnegie Library of Reims | September 6
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