Berend Strik, The Concise Townscape in Rehab, 2010; stitched C-print; 31 ½ x 47 ¼ inches; courtesy the artist

Berend Strik: Against Standardization and Sanitization


Renée Borgonjen and Berend Strik


An object can become its own surroundings

Working with One Architecture seems to me to be a “thixotropic experience.” We both have different ways of developing a concept and working on an idea. But when these forces come together it becomes fluid, the mixing becomes the strength of a wonderful collaboration.

According to Jacques Rancière, the specific powers of an artist may enable him to interlace ordinary experiences with insights and emotions, thus creating a new “sensory fabric”...

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