Kinke Kooi
I have the feeling that nothing is invisible if you really look carefully enough. I think many things may appear invisible because they are so subtle. I believe in the power of subtlety. Usually subtlety seems insignificant; it only becomes significant when you zoom in. That’s why I don’t have any problems with visualizing feelings like God, not knowing, amazement, soul, and the strange urge to feel in a new way about man and woman.
Kinke Kooi
In lush drawings and paintings, Kinke Kooi (1963, Netherlands) explores her own discomfort and depicts that which is unsettling. Subjects such as pliability, femininity, bourgeois life, loneliness, shame, and compassion form the source from which the work emerges. By working intensively on her drawings, almost 'hollowing them out', she emphasizes their physicality. Cave openings and organic vaults draw the gaze inward, paying homage to that which is often not shown or seen.
