In Healing, wounds—of skin and earth—are woven together into a single, living landscape.
Where the earth was once ripped open by the hungry steel of excavators, water now appears as a balm. What remains is not a scar but a silent reminder of pain that slowly dissolves.
The video is a continuation of the video installation Inverted Mountain, created for the Moving Mountains exhibition at CBK De Fabriek in Emmen.
The earlier diptychs Huid/Skin—photographs of skin and mining landscape—formed the central section of that installation.
In Healing, this is replaced by a three-channel video in which the damage and healing of the skin is mirrored by the transformation of a wound in the landscape: a former lignite mine filling with water and allowing life to reemerge.
It is a work about vulnerability and recovery, about the slowness with which earth and body move in the same cycle of wounding and healing.
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