Kiki Lamers
Girl's Head 1, 2009
oil on canvas
100 x 90 cm
'...these painings were not meant to be portraits – since, normally, in a portrait the eyes have been placed and directed in such a way that they seem to establish...
'...these painings were not meant to be portraits – since, normally, in a portrait the eyes have been placed and directed in such a way that they seem to establish contact with us, the viewers. […] The eyes stare: they do look somewhere, but without seeing anything. Absence is what they convey for the most part.' ( Rudi Fuchs about the series 'Girl's Head' in the exhibition catalogue of ' Kiki Lamers, HEADS', Jordaan van Heek prize, 2010)
Exhibitions
2010 Mar 6-Aug 22 Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
2009 Nov 1-Feb 1 Institute Neerlandais, Paris, FR
2009 May 13-May 17 Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL