In PLAY, Bakker is creating a colourful composition with a combination of sculptures in various shapes. These are reminiscent of everyday objects like children’s sorting blocks, a doorknob, or an armrest; by making the objects abstract, visitors are never quite sure what they are looking at. In this installation, Bakker plays with the visitors’ experience. Stripped of their original function, what sense of recognition and which memories are triggered by these objects?
Cindy Bakker
The Rotterdam artist Cindy Bakker (1989) graduated with a master’s degree in Fine Art from the St. Joost School of Art & Design in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Her work consists of large colourful sculptures, paintings, and installations for which she works with materials like plaster, styrofoam, acrylic, casting rubber, and wood. She is interested in exploring the boundaries between aesthetics and functionality. Bakker finds inspiration in random objects from the public space that were designed with a specific function in mind. In these objects she discovers an almost childlike aesthetic and a universal language, the everyday beauty of which she aims to visualise in her work.
Kunsthal Light
Kunsthal Light is the Kunsthal’s talent development programme. Since 2011, this exhibition programme has specifically focused on young artists who are able to make a ‘broad gesture’ in an original and artistic way. To this end, three times a year the Kunsthal places HALL 6 (the over 25-meter-long display window along the ramp) at the disposal of an artist who is then given free rein to make a site-specific work.
