{"id":184,"date":"2019-11-14T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inditlicht.nl\/public_html\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:12:59","slug":"sonja-van-kerkhoff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.inditlicht.nl\/public_html\/sonja-van-kerkhoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja van Kerkhoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonja van Kerkhoff<\/h1>\n

\u2018The Letters of the Living\u2019<\/h2>\n

Litho<\/h3>\n

60x 60 cm (35 cm diameter)<\/h4>\n

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The colours vary more gradually. The colors are more luminous and the lines are sharp lines on the white-cream colour of the paper.
\nMade in Sjra Marx’s Print Studio, Maastricht, The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

10 prints are in private collections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These drawings were originally for an installation of 19 flags<\/a>\u00a0made for the 1996 Oerol international arts festival. That year\u00b4s theme was magnetism, and I chose a period of nineteenth-century Iranian Bah\u00e1’\u00ed history as my starting-point.
\nThe first 19 followers of this religion took great personal risks, in leaving an established religion to become part of a newly emerging one to follow the B\u00e1b (meaning The Gate or The Entrance).
\nAs I worked on these drawings, I realised that uncertainty, restraint and alienation were as much a part of any quest as desire, passion and conviction. So these drawings and flags became the result of my own quest to express the magic, attraction, uncertainty and challenge of the spirit.
\nThe dark circle is not only a reference to sufi mysticism but also a symbollic ‘sky’ (heavenly or spiritual realm) for the constellation of ‘letters’ (apostles) of a new alphabet (religion).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sonja van Kerkhoff (1960) born and raised in Aotearoa\/New Zealand has lived in the Netherlands for the past two decades. She works in diverse media from public sculptural works to performance to the moving or interactive image as well curating or coordinating exhibitions or events.<\/p>\n

www.sonjavank.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n