Anne Geene
Autore di Anne Geene: Accumulation of Things. Vestibulum 4
Opere di Anne Geene
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An inventory of nature
Anne Geene (Breda, 1983) counts, measures, photographs and makes inventories of nature. She collects leaves, twigs, stones and pine needles, but also photographs of birds, beetles and pieces of tree bark, based on their peculiarities. She then analyses and organizes them according to an apparent logic. ‘Chance is more important than continuity’, as she says. She looks for visual similarities or patterns, repetitions and small deviations, which she then interprets and categorizes according to strict personal criteria.
For over a year, Anne Geene criss-crossed the area around the Kröller-Müller Museum. Whatever she came across or caught her eye, she picked up or captured with her camera. From tiny leaves of clover, ground-ivy or sweet William to colour markings on trees and blue skies above the Veluwe. She also photographed trees with a circumference larger than 1.5 metres: trees that were most likely already standing when Helene Kröller-Müller built her museum. And she found a collection of another ‘creature’: a squirrel’s acorn collection. In Anne Geene. Accumulation of things she shows us the surroundings of the museum through insignificant things, such as pieces of rubble, blades of grass, sand and half-eaten leaves, presented together in a modern-day cabinet of curiosities.… (altro)