Willem de Rooij, Pierre Verger in Suriname, exhibition view, Sonsbeek 2021, Arnhem, Netherlands (2021). Courtesy of the artist, Portikus, Foundation Pierre Verger and Galerie Chantal Crousel. Photo: Django van Ardenne.
Willem de Rooij is participating to the group exhibition Force Times Distance. On Labour and Its Sonic Ecologies. The core of the installation Pierre Verger in Suriname by Willem de Rooij is a suite of 257 images that were made by French photographer and ethnologist Pierre Verger during his trip to Suriname (South America) in 1948. De Rooij’s immersive installation thematizes the viewer’s position, and makes this particular group of photographs widely accessible for the first time.
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