ONZE HANDEN
Participants
Marieke Noort
1. Hand-plant arose from a formal study of Geweizwammetjes, which increasingly began to resemble fingers and small hands. I engraved and cut little arms with hands out of tetrapak in Barbie size, and while printing with green ink, the resemblance to a plant imposed itself. In this work, the hand took on a leading role with extra green and orange.
2. Out of curiosity about the difference between printing wrinkles and engravings, I used my own hand as a cut-out shape in tetrapak and printed it several times on top of each other, creating a suggestion of movement. At the same time I reflected on identity and added many fingerprints using a red stamp pad. To whom the greeting is directed is up to the viewer.
Anne Verhoijsen
Jean Cocteau said: the more I do with my hands, the more I belong to the world. A photograph of my parents’ hands. A hand in the colors of the Palestinian flag.
Anneke Harmsen
My hands are my best friends. Even if they are sometimes too small and not strong enough to hold on to what should not be let go and yet slips away.
Marisca Voskamp
“Signaalwoorden | Barricadewoorden | Liniaalwoorden” A hand, stretched out and open. White dots are scattered across the flesh, like shards of language that does not arrive. Signal words, barricade words, ruler words: language that opens, excludes and measures, leaving the question of how to glue together what has fallen apart.
Růženka Bisecker Vacca
For 10 years I have been photographing my husband’s hands in an attempt to capture our loving love. The now 1000 photographs record how much great happiness is hidden in everyday gestures and together form an archive of wonder and attention.
Riëtte Wanders
Last year I started a series with the working title: “the residue of painting”. For this series I use garments, paint rags and objects stained with paint residues. I elevate these cloths and objects to a kind of ‘studio relic’ by using them as models, repainting them or literally applying them to the canvas.
Marieke Geerlings
my world is in my head, sealed off and shielded through my hands it forces its way outward images and emotions fight to be seen time presses and forces me to give everything a place my vocabulary is insufficient to convey what I feel my story is told through gestures
Jos Houweling
picked from Instagram and amplified, improved and ruined
Bob Bunck
“I’ve got the whole world in my hands”
Emma van Drongelen
Hands often appear in my drawings; they can carry, hold, point, comfort, reassure, connect, feel. They are soft and powerful at the same time and point to what is valuable in life. For me, the hand is a direct connector between inner and outer world.
Kathelijne Davids
“Que' est- ce qui me manque”
Erik Romme
Ode to Marije This is her hand and her photograph, drawn by me. She put me on the path of art.
Moniek Spaans
Hands: each of the body parts at the ends of the arms, extending from wrist to fingertips, suited for grasping and holding. From my collection: the touch, the handle, the cathedral, with loose hands and “dag met het handje”.
Connie Dekker
Hortensia, my 93-year-old neighbour, her hands cared for others all her life. Year 2023, Hortensia passed away summer 2024.
Jak Beemsterboer
Handmade collage of magazine photos, ballpoint pen and marker.
Sylvia Willink
Carel Willink’s left painter’s hand in plaster, October 1983, and my own hand recently.
Monika Auch
During the five years of theoretical medical study, I missed working with my hands so much that I took private weaving lessons to develop the intelligence of my hands as well.
Jillis Stada
On my website benstada.nl, a selection of hands was made with the result: my hands
Henri van Poll
United in free thinking and creativity. United in grateful hands. United in our hands, Jos and Henri. That is US.
Harald Schole
an enlargement as an experiment: the left is painted with the right hand and the right with the left hand
Shima Ghods
Every hand carries the memory of a relationship. These photographs are part of a wall in my home in Tehran, Iran — a wall once filled with hands that pulled me out of the darkest moments of my life. Each hand reminds me of someone who held me when I was completely broken. Today these hands seem lost somewhere in Tehran, in a state of not knowing. I do not know where they are, whether they still hang on that wall, or even whether that house still exists. What remains is only the memory of touch, of hands that refused to let me go.
Margreet Bouwman
Head hand The head, but sometimes also a hand, in the paintings of Margreet Bouwman is the relentless attempt to create a second head that can provide clarity about one’s own world.
Helma Pantus
“Oud bont” “Citroen”
Fredie Beckmans
“Handtast” from the series Kamala, My Muse My Canvas
Robert Broekhuis
“DEAR HAND”, a triptych in which hands are central. Hands can do nothing, but also do something. They can even be painted and do things that are not possible in reality: grasp rivers, stop deer and even seize your heart.
Merapi Obermayer
No matter how strong your hands are, you cannot hold what is fluid.
Maria van Daalen
“As if I am always on deck” I chose this line from my ‘De deining gekeerd’ for the “hands of women poets with one line” project by South African artist Henk Serfontein.
Boudewijn Payens
Tetrahedron with hand “Enclosure of a volume”
Stella Veltkamp
“Pico Bello” inspired at the time by my mother
Margreet Kramer
“THE POTATO PEELER” Daily ritual
Kim Streur
From the series: Drift seeds – ex voto
Marieke Coppens
One learns a profession primarily by practising it systematically under expert guidance. From: Construction Engineering for Apprentices A (1961)
Harry van der Woud
“Hand in Glove” “Gentle resistance softens the curse.”
Cees Beuzekom
“Gorilla Fist” Where it all began
Anja Sijben
“Behind the facade” Still from a one-minute video caring hands, preserving in honour
Astrid Moors
“war of tug” number 6 and 7 The Schwarzmalen 3 project was in my case a tug-of-war. The outcome of a set of questions to the crowdfunding participants.
Dominique Panhuysen
“yes” Two photos from the series Found Words “Nanhija” Portrait from the series Women of the Silent Generation “Tineke and Teuny” Portrait of the sisters Tineke and Teuny Tukker, Antwerp (postcard edition)
Minne de Groot
“Not me!” Hands over eyes, bent forward: “I don’t want this, this passes me by.”
Peter Spaans
Since 1979, Peter Spaans and Bert Wils have been collaborating intermittently. This time in southwest France, where Bert has lived for more than ten years. This sequence, taken from a video, shows a simple but powerful gesture: on either side of a remaining wall of a disappeared farmhouse in Haute-Garonne, Peter and Bert reach each other through a hole in the stonework. They hold each other briefly and let go again. The images try to make their friendship visible — a friendship that sometimes exists for years without physical contact.
Jacqueline Lamme
Ladybird / Coccinella septempunctata In this work, the hand functions not only as a carrier but also as a mediator between human presence and the autonomous world of the insect.
Mathilde muPe
“Bread” “Fuck off with the food blockades around Gaza”
Henk Abbenhues
The hands of Tes 1:1 at age seven
A.R. Timbre
Hand 1: Florence, summer, 43 degrees, not a breath of wind Title: “Too hot to do anything” Hand 2: my elderly neighbour was moved to a nursing home after her fall. The wheelchair is her new support and companion. Title: “Houvast”
Marjanne Geurtsen
“Broken hands” The beauty of imperfection?
Linda Zhang
“The Invisible Hand Medium” A hand writes the word “hand”, as control and meaning shift.
Nella Montfoort
“Handige Vrouw”
Maartje Jacquet
“The anatomical lesson #31” From my collage series ‘The Anatomical Lesson’, images of children bring pages of an anatomy book to life; here the girl and the hand enter into a relationship… does the hand protect her or does she rest in it?
Anneke Timmerman
“Intimacy of words. My friend is down, but not when he reads.”
George Maas
The hands of Ramses Shaffy
Liesje van den Berk
“Sea of time” The series “Sea of time” shows the actions of the hands during my performance “Sunburned”. In this performance I scrape two bricks against each other with my hands, the dust falling down onto me.
Irene Janze
At my primary school, boys did HANDENarbeid and girls did HANDwerk. Hannah Arendt distinguished between labour, dictated by biological necessity of production and consumption, and work in which durable products such as art create a livable world… Freely adapted from H. Arendt
Paul Glazier
For more than 25 years I have worked as a masseur with my hands. Here is a living surface full of images, stories that move under my fingers, a living canvas that responds to touch. From three dimensions back to two, from skin to paper. The image shows not only my hands, but also the transition between feeling and seeing, between touch and image.
Nico Lootsma
In de nacht fietste ik naar huis en viel mijn oog op een etalage. Het was vlakbij een winkel met hulpmiddelen en protheses. Ik zag een glazen kast met losse handen. Mijn gedachten verbonden het een met het ander. Wat was er aan de hand. Voor wie waren deze handen. Waartoe dienden ze. Het antwoord was kort maar krachtig en stond op de gevel: NAILS. Ik stond bij een nagelstudio. Gauw maakte ik nog een foto en vervolgde mijn weg.
