Felt apart
‘Felt apart’ is the title of the art work in the show “Growing pains” of ULRIXA in Kunstruimte WILLEM II Den Bosch.
The show if part of the Growing Pains is ULRIXA’s third show, in which she took the characteristics and the sizes of the space in Willem II as the
starting point for new art works, originated from the works from the first two shows. Scaling up works and ideas was one of the elements
that resulted in six large scale works in the large exhibition hall of Willem II.
“Felt apart” is a work of ULRIXA developed by Ivo van den Baar.
Black wool felt, charcoal, 13 x 3,60 meter and 11 x 10 meter, 2025
Earlier works created around ULRIXA’s origins have led to a colelction of maps, embroidered on felt landscapes, linked to plants from the regions.
These plants represented ULRIXA’s sense of home:” You feel at home where you grow your own plants”. The most natural environments on earth are jungles.
Now that nature is under enormous pressure, wit primeval forests being burned down for wood and agriculture, we humans are becoming detached and adrift
looking for new places on erath to find a home.
As an artist ULRIXA is constantly on the move, guided by opportunities offered to her, to develop and to show her work.
“Felt apart” is a black work, partly wool felt, partly charcoal, like a large sketch in space. All parts are loosely mounted on the wall ,drawn with charcoal
and lose on the floor as a fragile fixed moment in time, just as fragile as ULRIXA herself in her young existence, searching for new images and meaning, or as
nature in its struggle to survive.
ULRIXA, the six artists embrace the resistance that these growing pains provoke and the resilience that enables them to get through them. After all,
growing pains serve a purpose: it allows us to move forward and develop. As the starting point of the exhibition, the artists take their personal
similarity with ULRIXA and build on them. With individual and collective works in textiles, video, transparency, storytelling an AI, among other things,
that explore themes such as the environment, migration,and identity, they investigate what their own place is within a whole and invite us
viewers to ask this question of ourselves.
“Growing Pains” by ULRIXA
Kunstruimte Willem II DenBosch, Boschdijktraat 100
Opening 11 January 16.00 hours, 2024, by Veerle Driessen, curator and writer
Open: 11 t/m 26 January, ecery day: 11.00 – 17.00 hours
Thanks to: Mondriaan Fund, Willem II, Kunstpodium-T, Jan Naaijkens Prize