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The White Shroud
2008
installation
exhibition Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur
second-hand clothes: cotton, linen, rayon
300 x 800 cm
The White Shroud is made of used, white clothes, mostly baby’s and children’s shirts and blouses. The clothes are sewn together – with the neck openings in one direction – and form a shroud, 3 x 8 meters in size.
The White Shroud was shown together with Flag of Compassion in the summer of 2008 at the international sculpture show Sonsbeek 2008:Grandeur in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
This work reflects on the notion of absence, innocence and vulnerability.