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Meulenhoff bv, Amsterdam, ISBN : 90-290-7259-8","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2026/628","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"vallend-hout","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/025/819/large/Untitled213.jpg?1415963847","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVallend Hout\u003c/em\u003e is an understated story about a garden maintained by two people. In the pouring rain, they each have their own way of taking care of the greenery. They plant, weed, cut and saw to keep the garden under control. Miek Zwamborn interweaves precise descriptions of the changes the garden undergoes with practical everyday advice for garden maintenance. She uses a simple style, itself subject to a pair of secateurs, forcing language into a state of hibernation that runs in parallel with the state of the garden.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiep grew mistletoe. The branches he\u0026#39;d cultivated on the trees at the back of the garden helped prevent nightmares. Every autumn he\u0026#39;d cut down the green twigs to reap his reward at Christmas. To grow his mistletoe, Siep didn\u0026#39;t wait for the thrushes to knock the berries onto the branches in the garden. He\u0026#39;d keep part of the harvest separate from the rest. In winter he\u0026#39;d spread out the berries on the trees that favour a bright spot, like poplars, maple trees and lime trees. He\u0026#39;d then take the white balls between his fingers, press the sticky seed out of them and rub it into the hollows in the young wood he\u0026#39;d sanded down. If it turned out well and the berry didn\u0026#39;t dry out or get washed away, the seed would germinate a couple of months later. The germ would point straight up. After searching and turning a bit, it would slowly dive towards the twig and attach itself to the tree branch, swelling as a result of it. Then, small leather leaves would appear. The simple forking branches would grow until they formed a thick sphere that didn\u0026#39;t have a top or bottom; no sun to grow towards, no earth to take root in. It would take on a enclosed form, focused on its own centre, thriving at the coldest time of year.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel was the product of field research at a tree surgery, visits to various botanical gardens in Europe, as well as the stacks of wood and various names and hearts etched into trees that the artist spent the past years photographing.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":12092,"title":"Oploper","dimensions":"20 x 12,5 cm, 142 p, language : Dutch, publisher : J.M. Meulenhoff bv, Amsterdam, ISBN : 90-290-6744-6","date_begin":"2000-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2026/629","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"oploper","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/025/817/large/Untitled211.jpg?1415963630","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;I think I need to be alone. It\u0026#39;s a peaceful way of tenderness, extensive and safe. Beauty is rigorous and demanding. You have to wait for it, study it, push it, and hug it intimately to force it to show itself. I hadn\u0026#39;t given much thought to it. I was ready to give up everything.\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman goes looking for meaning in a world that\u0026#39;s not her own. She searches the expanses of the high seas, in old, mechanical machines and the stories of the island\u0026#39;s men. This novel is the diary of a journey. The island sails from Angola to the Gulf of Mexico, but the reader doesn\u0026#39;t notice much movement. The world in which the story takes place is limited to the reality on the island: an environment that moves as a whole, in which travels are embarked upon, things happen, observations are made and lots of things don\u0026#39;t happen and are left unspoken. In the same way in which a composer works with time, uses instruments and provides a direction for a piece to be played cantabile, Miek Zwamborn conjures up rain, stages a meeting and leaves tools lying around. This book could be the song she hums whilst cleaning the machinery, pushing buttons and pulling levers to get the apparatus to work.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiek Zwamborn went on shore to draw the wide and empty landscape on the middle of the sea but she came back with this novel, without any drawings. Ever since all her projects start outside on a specific place, far away from cities.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":12090,"title":"De Duimsprong","dimensions":"21 x 13.1 cm, 255 p., language : Dutch, publisher : Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, ISBN : 9789028260917","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2026/627","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"de-duimsprong","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/025/821/large/Untitled215.jpg?1415964040","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e14.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDe duimsprong\u003c/em\u003e, a young woman parts ways with Jens after hiking together in the mountains, and they agree to meet up again soon. However, when Jens goes missing without a trace, she isn\u0026#39;t able to understand or come to terms with his disappearance. She starts retracing their route on the quest to find him again. During her search, she encounters the striking Eduard Spelterini, Richard Owen, Marie V\u0026ouml;glin, Mary Anning and the figure of Albert Heim (1849-1937), a geologist who documented the Swiss Alps. Her physical hunt for Jens is intertwined with a biographical investigation following in Heim\u0026#39;s footsteps across Europe. She becomes acquainted with the (love) life and work of this renowned geologist as she attempts to find out why Jens could have disappeared. As she wanders, her own story unravels from these two perspectives.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDe duimsprong\u003c/em\u003e, Miek Zwamborn demonstrates the scope of the contemporary novel, using a combination of fiction and non-fiction to sweep the reader away on a journey past landslides, Alpine panoramas, mountaintops and the lesser known peaks of nineteenth-century science. The associated stories conjure up a passionate and richly illustrated picture of this fascinating world.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst working on her third\u0026nbsp;novel \u003cem\u003eDe duimsprong\u003c/em\u003e, Miek Zwamborn showed a cabinet filled with geological drawings, stones, models, tools and archive material around the tale of a historical landslide in the South of England and two eccentric adventurers: the British paleontologist Mary Anning and the Swiss geologist A. von Sankt Gallen Heim.\u0026nbsp;This \u0026ldquo;Wunderschrank\u0026rdquo; gave an insight in her story brewery. The artist treated it as an experiment to see if she could construct a three dimensional version of the plot with her findings.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]