Time, Timeless, Movement - Pulchri Studio
The Balance Spring and the Grasshopper
On July 19, the exhibition
Time, Timeless, Movement will start – an initiative of Pulchri Studio, Stichting Haegsche Tijd and the Swiss Embassy. The exhibition celebrates the 350th anniversary of Christiaan Huygens’ invention of the balance spring and explores the theme of time in all its versatility.
For this exhibition, I created new work within my ongoing project
Preserved, which touches on the tension between the desire to stop time and the transience that eludes it. The human tendency to want to preserve the beauty of nature and, as it were, freeze it in time, is inherent in my project. I make the flower still lifes in Preserved exclusively with artificial flowers, vases and props from thrift shops – objects each with their own past. With this I create flower still lifes that refer to stylistic features and symbolism from different periods in art history. I temporarily build each still life in my studio and dismantle it again as soon as the image has been captured to my liking. In each still life, different time layers merge.
For the still lifes in this exhibition, I was inspired by two specific flower compositions by 17th-century painter Clara Peeters. Her flower arrangements full of symbolism inspired me to create two of my own still lifes with subtle references. In one work, a bumblebee appears, symbolizing diligence and industriousness; in the other, a grasshopper, as a sign of transience and the unexpected.
The exhibition will be opened on Saturday 19 July 2025 at 5:00 PM by Jan van Zanen, Mayor of The Hague and Corinne Cicéron Bühler, the Swiss ambassador to the Netherlands. You are cordially invited!
Opening: July 19, 2025, 5:00 PM
Period: July 19 to August 10, 2025
Address: Lange Voorhout 15, 2514 EA The Hague
Information:
pulchri.nl &
webshop Pulchri
