Untitled, 2025
Heimprofi
installation
I am currently starting to make a series of flags to be put on abandoned flag poles that you can see everywhere around europe when you start to look out for The flags will be made out of fabric taken from an installation made last year in collaboration with the community of Saarbrucken, germany. I wanted to reuse the textile as a means to repurpose old work and to interact further with the people who made this work. I do this by painting over what is already there but still keeping the old work visible as well. I will be working with text relating to the location where the flags are being put. I reuse the collectively made work as I like the idea that the work doesn't have one creator or owner. And the fact that this is an uncommisioned show automaticly solves the question around the monetary problem. The two locations that i want to propose for installing are located along the highway near my town. One is more central and the other one is where the highway passes through a nature reserve. The flags will have some poetic translation of this situation in image and text.
Location 1 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.05963,5.9404818,3a,75y,246.56h,94.01t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1snhLXjmfoIFv87Sds9Hr3_Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-4.0086316650726985%26panoid%3DnhLXjmfoIFv87Sds9Hr3_Q%26yaw%3D246.55877327953914!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Location 2 https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8826795,5.8596044,3a,65.6y,27.92h,96.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sB2NKktQEgc51QiNydvyPOA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-6.955119115106086%26panoid%3DB2NKktQEgc51QiNydvyPOA%26yaw%3D27.92194391412548!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D’
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About the Artist
I’m Heimprofi an artist from the Netherlands making use of all kinds of media: painting, collage, Installations, video, drawing, and screen-printing. Whereby the technique of collage is used the most by me, as it combines all sorts of input and material. I frequently work in the city, being triggered visually by the surrounding and the contact you have with the people you meet is the dynamic environment I need to create. Currently I am working on a “Space Inventory” a series of handmade books filled with posters, drawings and stories. The process of collecting, building and strolling is a documentation of a subjective urban research—based on my personal spatial experiences recorded in text and collages. Beside my art practice I work as an artist educator, initiating educational and community projects collaborating with various artists and institutes. This is where I can embrace my neurodiversity and help others to do so too.
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