Foundation Art and Public Space
artist: Lara Schnitger
located in: Revalidatiecentrum Friesland,
client: Stichting Revalidatie Friesland
The work that Lara Schnitger created for the rehabilitation center, Friesland, in Beetsterzwaag, forms an approximately eight-meters-high network between the walls of the central lobby. Blue and green panty hose were tied and knotted together and, with the use of small rods, the material was expanded, creating a lively pattern of circles and stars.
Lara Schnitger
Rehabilitation center Friesland
photo: John Stoel
The pattern acts as a playful counterpart to the stern architecture and elicits associations with star-filled skies or blankets of clouds. With the slanting sunlight, the patterns seem to be continuously moving and reaching into each other. The transient spatial constructions seem to grope around and fasten themselves to the walls, floors and ceilings of their given space. They elicit associations with magnified micro organisms or chimera and the work seems to be able to evaporate at any moment. This transience can be seen as a reflection on the situation downstairs in that the patients stay here on a temporary basis and hope that their situation will improve. They are working on lessening their handicap or learning to live with it. Lara Schnitger offers them a place where they can dream away. A place where the outside world can enter and the daily exercises can be momentarily forgotten. *
photo: John Stoel
