Kiki Lamers
Girl's Head 2, 2009
oil on canvas
100 x 90 cm
'...these painings were not mean 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 mean 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 in the exhibition catalogue of ' Kiki Lamers, HEADS', Jordaan van Heek prize, 2010)
Exhibitions
2009, Kiki Lamers, Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France
06.03 - 22.08.2010 'Hoofden', Centraal Museum Utrecht