Artist talk Christiaan Bastiaans with Madelon van Schie and Sjoerd Kloosterhuis

This Sunday, we welcome artist Christiaan Bastiaans at ROZENSTRAAT.

His video work Face to Face (1978) is currently on display as part of the Rosebud programme of the Sonic Acts biennial. During Salon #6, the closing event of the exhibition, Sjoerd Kloosterhuis and Madelon van Schie, curators of ROZENSTRAAT, will be in conversation with the artist about his work and practice.

Bastiaans’ oeuvre conveys a profound fascination with the human experience, in particular human vulnerability and resilience. In his photographs, illustrations, sculptures, and video works, the body recurs as a repository of identity, displacement, and exclusion. Bastiaans draws on his own family history and the stories of people he has met in conflict zones, depicting human fragility at large. Face to Face (1978) is an early example of this theme, in which Bastiaans makes his own body disappear whilst simultaneously reflecting the world around him.