Femke Van Delft Guerrilla installation "Missing" on Cambie Street Vancouver.
Femke Van Delft's Guerrilla Installation at local John Hendry Park
Femke Van Delft "Missing" Project
Femke Van Delft "Missing" A Guerrilla Mapping ProjectFemke's work has moved and entertained me since I first ran into her installation at the Artropolis Show at the CBC a few years ago. I was there installing my work "blood, water, salt rot" and Femke was installing thousands of pencils hanging in a scene from the huge ceilings.
I at first thought I had run into the new Lenore Tawny and then realised I was looking at something far more humorous and amazing.Femke can peel a pencil and keep the shaving intact to create hanging wonder. Threatening work with it's sharp but familiar objects.
She has gone on to create the moving and important work "Missing" , a guerrilla mapping installation installation using the legs and bottoms of female manikins., identifying locations where Vancouver's sex trade workers were last seen before being killed or going missing and other situations relating to sex crimes against women. These installations popped up in identified locations during the night.
Femke and I share this neighbourhood. We shop in the same stores and have both been the head of the parent committee at the local school. We have both faced down local authorities and presented cases to all levels of government here. We have both spoken up regarding the situation for sex trade workers in our city.She cheered me up more than a few times when I was really ill.
She once commented when I was hanging work..."I want more of them, hundreds of them, thousands of them covering a huge wall. " I have been working towards this excess for awhile.
I at first thought I had run into the new Lenore Tawny and then realised I was looking at something far more humorous and amazing.Femke can peel a pencil and keep the shaving intact to create hanging wonder. Threatening work with it's sharp but familiar objects.
She has gone on to create the moving and important work "Missing" , a guerrilla mapping installation installation using the legs and bottoms of female manikins., identifying locations where Vancouver's sex trade workers were last seen before being killed or going missing and other situations relating to sex crimes against women. These installations popped up in identified locations during the night.
Femke and I share this neighbourhood. We shop in the same stores and have both been the head of the parent committee at the local school. We have both faced down local authorities and presented cases to all levels of government here. We have both spoken up regarding the situation for sex trade workers in our city.She cheered me up more than a few times when I was really ill.
She once commented when I was hanging work..."I want more of them, hundreds of them, thousands of them covering a huge wall. " I have been working towards this excess for awhile.
I always wait for her work. Hundreds of them!
For a great read and visual overwhelm check our Femke's web site at http://www.FemkeVanDelft.com/
1 comment:
oh my god!
I keep hoping to run into you!
Someone told me to look at this posting on your blog
who knows if you still are doing the blog
I find it hard to do it all
art love life talk write web
really really would love to find out what you are taking apart now
such an amazing artist
I still almost smell your work
femkequiet@gmail.com
please write
fem
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