Author Archives: Frans van Lent


The Drift
November 21 2014,
Singel 222, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

TheDrift

The drift is a populist curatorial concept.
We asked artists all over the world to submit a video work, àny video work.
We did not intend to make a choice on the basis of our personal preferences or a premeditated subject, we simply accepted the main stream of submissions. That main stream led us through the project of selection.
We follow the drift and we will see where it brings us.
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By the sweat of your brow..
House of the verger, Museumstraat 65, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
June 7, 2014

TheInstitute
© The Unstitute

Together with God also the verger disappeared, but his house still breathes the traces of a subservient existence.
With performances and video 14 artists show what binds man to the earth.
By the sweat of your brow.. is a presentation within the framework of the Urban Explorers Festival 2014

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May 17 – May 18, 2014
Unnoticed Art Festival
Haarlem, Netherlands,

UAF
© Theun Okkerse

The Unnoticed Art Festival is a festival for unnoticed live art and took place in an undisclosed Dutch city. The Unnoticed Art Festival balanced on the line between public and private. It showed artworks hiding in normality. The language, used to express the works, fit in the average social behaviour in public space and, because of that, remained unnoticed to bystanders.
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Damp

I stand in front of a white wall.

I take a small round mirror out of my pocket,
put some glue on the back and press the mirror against the wall.
I step very close to the mirror and,
by breathing in and out a few times,
I cover it with moisture.
I step back again and wait until all the moisture has disappeared.

I remove the mirror and put it back in my pocket.

-BuroRotterdam, Rotterdam
January 26, 2014
-Reuten & Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
May 17, 2015
-Studio Seine, Rotterdam
November 15, 2025

Polder

In the morning I am standing for 30 minutes in front of a Dutch painting, Het Gein, by Willem Roelofs (1883),
imagining myself part of that landscape.

In the afternoon I am standing for 30 minutes in a field in the polder De Biesbosch,
with my eyes closed, imagining the space around me.



-Dordrechts Museum and Biesbosch, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
December 18, 2013.

Spill

(7-8 minutes)

I am standing barefoot, a glass of water in my right hand.
I wait for silence around me.
I then bow forward very slowly and spill some water. After a few drops I move back a bit.
The bowing and moving back is repeated until the glass is empty.
I return in an upright position.

–Kapitaal Utrecht (A night at the Gym), Netherlands
June 27, 2013 (try-out)
-Gezipark (photo © Hiroomi Horiuchi), Istanbul, Turkey
September 13, 2013
-Kunstrand, Dordrecht, Netherlands
October 5, 2013

The work is related to:
Spill (2021) and Spill 3 (2026).