The two prints of Squat/Anti-Squat are part of a film-based work that examines the multiple lives of Tripolis; a building complex in the south of Amsterdam designed in the 1990s by Aldo and Hannie van Eyck. The buildings of Tripolis are at once a real estate asset, an office workplace, an architectural icon, and temporarily a shelter for the refugee action collective We Are Here. Caught between still and moving image, the shifting perspective of these prints capture a suspension between ‘public’ and ‘private’ and between ‘financial’, designed’ and ‘domestic’ space.

(from the publication of Trade Markings, Frontier Imaginariers Ed. nr5)



Installation view of Trade Markings, Frontier Imaginaries #5, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2018. Photographs by Marcel de Buck


Installation view of BPD, Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam, 2018. Photographs by Adriaan van Dam