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Laundry-Line
Dit Laundry-Line
project begon
met enkele afgedankte
witte shirts.
Ergens na 2012.
Een van de witte shirts
nam ik toen mee
naar een kunst-event
waar je onder meer
kleding kon laten bewerken.
De eerste bewerking was
een zeefdruk
van een auto band
profiel
op de rug van mijn
meegebrachte wit shirt.
Daarna beschilderde ik
het.
Het shirt droeg ik op
een kunstbeurs in Athene in 2019.
Mijn jongste zoon
(1999) was rond 2016
begonnen aan een
opleiding aan de horeca vakschool.
Hij groeide voortdurend
uit z’n shirts.
Mijn verzameling witte
overhemden werd groter.
De groeiende
verzameling shirts
hergebruikte ik op
verschillende manieren
…gedragen tijdens
kunstprojecten
…opnieuw betekend met
herinneringen
van de locatie waar ik
de shirts mee naar toe nam.
De shirts zijn ooit
ergens gemaakt
en omhullen lichamen
ter bescherming,
verfraaing, herkenning,
er wordt in geleefd,
sporen erop nagelaten,
ze worden weggegeven,
doorgegeven,
doorverkocht of bewaard.
no.UF 6
Foto: 2019 Platforms Project, Athens ex-mekh-equilibrium
In 2025 heb ik twee
shirts (UF 1 en 2) meegenomen
uit Nederland en deze
verder bewerkt
tijdens een residency
bij Arteventura in Zuid Spanje.
Gedurende het
kunstevent Brota El Pueblo
is een van de shirts
tijdens de performance
van Alicia Velasquez gewassen.
In
2025, I brought two shirts (UF 1 and 2)
from
the Netherlands and further worked on them
during
a residency at Arteventura in southern Spain.
During
the Brota El Pueblo exhibition,
one
of the shirts was washed
as
part of Alicia Velasquez’s performance.
Brota el pueblo, Corteconcepción, Andalucía 2025
no.UF1
Shirt UF1 : New Traces of Use
2026
Text in the shirt: Never the
same
UF1
in video ‘Wormhole’, Veluwe, The Netherlands 2022
UF1
in installation ’Wormhole’ Platforms
Project, Athens 2024
In
the front: wall paper work of Maarten Schepers, shirt detail in the back.
‘Pose’in
studio 2024
Painting,
shirt no.UF1, washing tub, floor piece
C1 
LN 2
SA1
Bezoekers poseren met
hun ‘nieuwe’ shirts’
Links: C1 midden LN2
rechts: SA2
tijdens de EX-MÊKH
hotelkamer-expositie ¿De Dónde?
Hybrid
Art Fair Madrid 2024
Visitors showing there
shirt they bought at the Hybrid ArtFair 2024
The green shirt SA I was wearing in a scene
in a video performance:
SA1
http://www.ellenrodenberg.nl/EX%20MEKH%20stage%20arousal%202021
The left; this
shirts was in a performing installation during a benefit exhibition in Quartair:
https://www.quartair.nl/the-carrot-de-wortel/
C1 2020
LN3
LN1,2,3
No.LN3 shirt and
slats, studio floor piece, preparing for performance for the Malieveld 2014
Foto’s:
3 shirts voor de winkel van Het lage
Noorden 2026
(Detail)Het shirt LN3 is tijdens de art-residence
Bij kunstinstelling ‘Het Lage
Noorden’ (Waddengebied) verder betekend.
Het middelste shirt LN2 is gedragen
tijdens de Hybrid Art Fair in 2024 in Madrid
LN3 heeft als kledingstuk voor het
lattenraamwerk gediend, tijdens een performance op het Malieveld in 2014
Photos:
3 shirts for the
Het Lage Noorden 2026 store
(Detail) The LN3
shirt was further developed during the art residency
at the art
initiative “Het Lage Noorden” (Wadden Sea region in The Netherlands).
The middle
T-shirt, LN2, was worn during the Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid in 2024.
LN3 served as a
dress for the slatted framework during a performance at the Malieveld
in 2014.
EN
Laundry-Line
This Laundry-Line project began
with a few old white shirts.
Somewhere after 2012.
I took one of the white shirts with me
to an art event
where, among other things,
you could have clothes decorated.
The first treatment was a screen print
of a car tyre profile
on the back of the white shirt I’d brought along.
After that, I painted it.
I wore the shirt at an art fair in Athens in 2019.
My youngest son (born in 1999) had started
a course at hospitality school around 2016.
He was constantlygrowing out of his shirts.
My collection of shirts continued to grow.
I reused the shirts in various ways
…worn during art projects
…given new meaning with memories
of the places I took the shirts to.
The shirts were once made somewhere
and envelop bodies for protection,
beautification, recognition; they are lived in,
traces are left on them, they are given away,
passed on, resold or kept.
Filed
under: #the_body_remembers_erf,
#aide_memoires_erf
The laundry-line was as such for the first time presented
at the EX-MÊKH ‘Unifying Fury’ exhibition
in Quartair, The Hague 2026
Six
shirts are hanging on a clothes rack. Above the rack the painted-drawing ‘Body
Language’ (Sois belle et tais-toi), in the back the EX-MÊKH video / performance
‘Wormhole’.
Opening
19th June 2026 ‘Unifying Fury’
During
the exhibition I offered the shirts for:
One
year rental or for sale or
Walk&show
the shirt through the exhibition,
Above: Photos opening by Dana Monda
UF6 and UF4
UF 1 and UF2
Laundry-line (selection)
UF=
(first time)offer for Rent during Unifing Fury 2026
C=
(first offer) for sale at Quartair 2020
LN=
(first time) in consignation at Het Lage Noorden 2026
SA
= (first use) in a performance in Stage Arousal 2021
(update
28.6.2026) no.UF 4, UF 6, UF3 and UF 1 is rented out untill June 2027
Stories
will be collected and shared.
UF1 never the same
Places,
region: Veluwe NL,
Andalusia ES
Performances: Brota El
Pueblo, Andalusia, 2025
UF2
Story: Is washed during a performance in the lavaderos
of Puerto Gil in Corteconcepcíon ES. Performances: Brota El Pueblo, Andalusia, 2025
UF3 traces of us
UF4 traces of use
UF5
UF6
details:
details UF1
(text on the shirt) The body remembers what the mind
forgets)
details UF3
details UF4
details UF6
Materials: divers
fabric, divers painting and drawing materials (acrylic paint, textile paint, marcers, textile markers)
Use&wash: wear, share
or as wall piece, wash separate, inside out, doesn’t matter if colours
disappear, its as all in life, iron while covering the
shirt with other cloth.
See
process-updates also on the NEW Dutch develloped social media platform:
https://echobeach.nl/EllenRodenberg