In Tijd en Water, Loes Heebink explores the relationship between landscape, cyclical time, and human vulnerability.

The video installation is constructed around images of the ebb and flow of the tides along the Wadden Sea coast, where the boundary between land and water constantly shifts. This tidal rhythm appears as the earth’s breathing, in which moments of silence, menace, and reflection converge.

The emptiness of the landscape—where heaven and earth seem to touch—is used as a space for contemplation. Floating in this in-between realm evokes security and origin, but simultaneously carries within it the threat of loss: the possibility of drowning in the melting ice. In this way, the work connects personal experience with global ecological issues.

A key element in the installation is the poem Tíminn og vatnið (Time and Water) by the Icelandic poet Steinn Steinarr (1908–1958), translated into Dutch by Claude van de Berg. By interweaving fragments from this work with the video footage, a dialogue between poetry and the experience of nature is created, in which language and image deepen each other’s resonance.

Time and Water was created for the exhibition FLOATING at Kunstwerk Kolderveen (September 15 – October 8, 2023), in which Heebink exhibited alongside Priscila Fernandes, Bouke Groen, Rory Pilgrim, Anne Fie Salverda, Gejan Stol, and Edward Clydesdale Thomson.
In the summer of 2025, the work will be given a new context during the 54th edition of Open Stal in Oldeberkoop. The installation will be specially adapted for the basement of the former CAV Factory, with the video footage reflected in a water basin, allowing the themes of weightlessness, threat, and transience to be experienced even more intensely.