The Horse's guide I, 2012
“The Somnambulic Archive” is referring to invisible entities, which in some specific circumstances become revealed.
I started to explore in “Seek & Hide” the human tendency towards the irrational, through the case study of Antoinette de Bach-van Loon (Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, 2010).
With “The Somnambulic archive” I further develop this research of interpretation of archival documents, using as a source photographs
I made of the family Van Loon ‘s archive.
In The Horse’s guide I en II, I have emphasized the retouches in the original photographs. In each of two portraits of horses had the figure of a servant (which presence was to make sure the horses would stay calm) been completely scratched away in order to keep prominent the portrait of the horse only, undisturbed from ‘second-class’ elements.
I inversed the photographs in a negative and filled each retouch with glow in the dark threads, by which the servants alone are phosphorescing in obscurity.
Woven textile is to me the accurate medium for my end purposes, as the technical qualities of certain threads (reflecting and phosphorescent yarns) allow me to reveal specific entities from the photographed archive, at day and at night; hence the title “The Somnambulic Archive”.
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