Van Joolingen Machteld

The Line

The Netherlands, 2010

Brooch

Materials:

steel, silver

Techniques:

Etched steel combined with silver

Dimension in cm:

14 x8 x 0.8

Artist Statement:

The piece is built up from several parts. The

back is a lucky clover motif ment as a push

into modern times and the 2 steel

ornaments stand for the past. Together

with the silver setting all the parts are

clinched together as is the status quo.

The photo depicts hands on a barbed wire

in a palestinian refugee camp. The phote I

used is an old one from a newspaper

depicting palesinians at a camp holding

barbed wire.

For me this picture also says something

about holding on to what you are.

This work falls within a series called

‘framed’, work about the private versus the

public domain. I make an embedding, a

private frame for those whose pictures

appear in the worldnews, thrown into

public space without defense, to restore

intimacy.