Anouk Griffioen

‘The exhibition tells a story of survival and memory. In one of the drawings I secretly hid him [my father].’ Anouk Griffioen (1979) drew the landscapes her father photographed during her childhood in charcoal, filling the spaces with an ever-changing past.

Griffioen has a deep fascination with nature, memory, and transience. Her monumental charcoal drawings surround you, they are presented as triptychs, like condensed memories. As a viewer, you sometimes quite literally step into her world. The starting point of the exhibition is a photograph her father took in Enschede on the day she was born. Using the thousands of photographs her father made, she revisits all the places where her family once lived and photographs them anew.

Cover image: Anouk Griffioen, Where Trees Don’t Die, 2021, charcoal