Object
Verandah
Verandah
The white plastic chair seems out of place on a veranda where everything else is made of wood, except for the door handle and slippers. The contrast with the solid wooden chair is striking: one is a mass-produced item from the factory, the other is handmade and hence unique. Still, the two chairs are also archetypes representing two entirely different cultures. Since the early 1990s, artist Roy Villevoye has been a regular visitor to Papua New Guinea, a former Dutch colony. Here he became acquainted with the Asmat, a local ethnic group. But the wooden cabin shown here cannot belong to the Asmat, as they build their homes elevated high above the ground. This must therefore be the dwelling of a missionary who most likely brought the white chair from his (western) home country. [text 2023]
- Maker
- Roy Villevoye
- Title
- Verandah
- Dating
- 1998
- Object type
- foto
- Object number
- 30052
- Materials
- foto
- Technique
- lambda-print (C-print) satijn-gelamineerd op aluminium
- Dimensions
- hoogte 100 cm
- breedte 150 cm
- Acquisition
- aankoop (2005)
- Inscriptions and marks
- signatuur en opschrift achterzijde l.o. (met inkt): VERANDAH, 1998 // R.V. 1/5
- Rights
- Collectie Centraal Museum Utrecht
- Documentation
- 150 : [Roy Villevoye], concept Roy Villevoye. ed. Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye, Roy Villevoye (Amsterdam, 2001), [S.p.]
- Roy Villevoye : detours : including collaborations with Jan van Dietvorts, concept & ed. Roy Villevoye, Jaap Guldemond, Jan Dietvorst ; authors Lex ter Braak ... [et al.], Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2008), 384 p.
- EVIDENCE : Jan Dietvorst & Roy Villevoye, concept, photos & ed. Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye; texts Andrea Cinel, An van Dienderen, Jap Sam Books (Heijningen, [2017]), [172] p.
- Tí, [foto's door] Koos Breukel & Roy Villevoye ; essays Tijs Goldschmidt & Hans de Hartog Jager, Lecturis (Eindhoven, 2013) Van Zoetendaal (Amsterdam, 2013), 140 p.