Carla Graft

Carla Graft (1946) lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is an independent fine art professional and cultural historian. She was resident at St. Joost Academie in Breda and Ateliers '63 in Haarlem (NL) and has been awarded in 2000 the MA degree European Arts and Cultures at Montfort University in Leicester (GB) and in 2007 the MA degree Cultural Sciences at Open Universiteit, Heerlen (NL). She was author of Kunst in Nood (2008), a research on patronage of art benefactors in The Hague between the two World Wars.

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EUROPE IN MOTION
A TIME PASSING PROJECT
The constantly expanding archive of images of people on escalators is an attempt to visualize the increasing Europeanization. The aim of this project is to establish a European work of art based on a comparising of a group of people on a similar location but in a different environment. Practically, the project could be not feasible. However accepted that the European integration phase could be seen as a period with its own sense, it might be possible to make it visible. For this research the camera, placed four meters in front of the escalator, is used as an observing and recording tool. Aware or not the people slide from up to down. The dynamic constant rythm gives the viewer a strong image experience and offers more than just an actual social event.

IF TIME IS SPACE
WORK IN PROGRESS
If time is space is the theme of the perspective representation of round moving forms in space. Linear perspective works with one or more vanishing points. In contrast, space does not have any sets of parallel lines. Such perspective would thus have no vanishing points. The result is an impression of space and movement but is at the same time flat.

LINKS
www.stroom.nl
www.eburon.nl/kunst_in_nood