Harm Hajonides

Born in 1956  
lives and works in Amsterdam

Since 2010, Harm Hajonides regularly posts a picture of a new installation on his blog.
Those installations usually consist of a word or a sentence combined with an arrangement of objects that we sometimes recognise and sometimes do not.
The work is not a message, rather comments and conjectures about social relationships and circumstances. Something is at stake here.

“Everyday observations partly real partly compacted or invented are the source of my work in which place, (homeland), human (man, president father, mother) thing (large form of colour or rattan tray or etcetera ) and decoration (tradition, culture or beautiful) close to or on top of each other become a situation or installation.
They are situations in the homeland in which different cultures, ages, sports, borders and landscape intertwine into an image.”

The work GISTEREN is a search for disappearing and appearing or being visible . The work consists of a transparent construction that draws an angular 3D body in space and is the carrier of two forms sawn out of chipboard derived from decorative ornaments (an ornament is a composition or decorative element that aims to decorate or embellish an object, wikipedia). 

If you see the structure as a body or room, both ornaments are the desire to make what is barely still visible or already almost disappearing presentable.
Both ornaments are partly sawn open, partly with the shapes cut out and taped shut again, as if there is shame, doubt or reluctance to want to listen up, to be visible. 

I think it is a search for how to position yourself as a man, human being.

http://hhajonides.blogspot.com/

Instagram: @harmhajonides