Apostles
2025
The starting point of the exhibition is a family photo album, or rather its absence in an era when every family was supposed to have its own collection of memories. Only eleven photos remain in this single album. No more have survived, nor were many made at that time. It is from these few images that the exhibition’s series of paintings was derived.
The photographs capture twelve of my thirteen aunts: all on confirmation day, flowers in their arms, eyes fixed on the future. The thirteenth is missing, as is always the case with someone who could not be traced.
The family did not have their own camera. Only one photo has survived for each child: a confirmation photo at the age of 15, with flowers. As if a silent portrait, marking the only official moment in their young lives.
Now they appear before the audience. Not as a biography, but as a memory. Silent apostles, bearers, young women in the most fleeting bloom of life. They are united by this one moment in time – one picture, one flower, one story.
The starting point of the exhibition is a family photo album, or rather its absence in an era when every family was supposed to have its own collection of memories. Only eleven photos remain in this single album. No more have survived, nor were many made at that time. It is from these few images that the exhibition’s series of paintings was derived.
The photographs capture twelve of my thirteen aunts: all on confirmation day, flowers in their arms, eyes fixed on the future. The thirteenth is missing, as is always the case with someone who could not be traced.
The family did not have their own camera. Only one photo has survived for each child: a confirmation photo at the age of 15, with flowers. As if a silent portrait, marking the only official moment in their young lives.
Now they appear before the audience. Not as a biography, but as a memory. Silent apostles, bearers, young women in the most fleeting bloom of life. They are united by this one moment in time – one picture, one flower, one story.
