​​het Uiteenvallen van de Volharding der Herinnering door de Haven van Rotterdam in samenwerking met Apple Kaarten/
​the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory by the Port of Rotterdam in cooperation with Apple Maps

2019




The Port of Rotterdam. Immense. Structured. Organized.
A no-nonsense area.
 
Mapped by Apple Maps. For the purpose of navigation or positioning.
An emotionless, binary registration of reality in our time.

But take a closer look, and there is more to be seen.
Structures fall apart, chaos takes over.
Parts of vessels vanish.
Memories emerge.
Time becomes visible.

To me, it is a metaphor for how memory works.
We perceive something, it is stored in our mind, transformed into a memory.
A memory that fades, that may be distorted and even disappear in the course of time.