Evelyn Snoek

The painting of Evelyn Snoek is a plea to forget what you have learned about painting, and to forget what you have seen exactly. It is an investigation into the foundations of painting itself, and at the same time an exploration of what color in a space means. Her studio is a laboratory where it is investigated when a painting ceases to be a painting, when it gets mass, relates itself to the space as an object. Here the role of the wearer, the muscle name, is questioned. What exactly is the painting? The part that is stretched on the window, or the wearer, or are they inextricably linked? And is a painting still a painting when it is rolled up in a corner, and we can only see traces of paint on the edges? And is it necessary that paint needs a cloth to be a painting? Questions that often generate very theoretical treatises, but are answered in an adequate way by Evelyn Snoek.