Seaview

Year: 2002
Size: 7000 x 300
Material: textile
Exhibition: GEDROOGDE HAVEN

The exhibitions subject was ‘alienation’.
Schokland used to be inhabited. It no longer is. There are no more villages; the remaining houses are empty. To me, important aspects of an inhabited area are houses with curtains. Someone’s home isn’t completely finished unless there’s something on the floor and there are curtains for the windows.
Curtains offer protection as well as certain cosiness. When walking through a street at night one wonders what’s going on behind the drawn curtains.
In Schokland the homeliness and intimacy have disappeared along with the inhabitants. Guda Koster decided to attach curtains on the former jetty, so the space under the jetty could function as a place to live and the homeliness returns to Schokland, The patterns on the textiles of the different curtains symbolize the diversity in background of the inhabitants. When the wind touches the curtains the curtains resemble sails of a ship.