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david wasch, art, studio, research

Dear visitor of(f) the screen,


This is a process-based archive space dedicated to reflecting on and exploring my artistic practice. Here, I organize and juxtapose various pieces and fragments of my work in a different form. The site serves as an ongoing research publication, both for my own use and open to see for visitors.

 

The digital platform allows me to review my images from different perspectives — both literally and figuratively. It’s a place where I can examine how these images interact, and finding connections and contrasts to possibly reveal something new. The texts and images you’ll find here range from research notes and reflective thoughts to stories and spontaneous ideas.

Practical note: You can adjust the platform's layout and scale to your preferred zoom level by holding the Ctrl key while scrolling the mouse wheel.

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It's a place where I can look around

where images are glancing at each other

catching fragments of conversation

amongst images who seem to know each other,

but at the same time they are new.

everything is different except one another

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david wasch, art, studio, research
david wasch, art, studio, research
david wasch, art, studio, research
david wasch, art, studio, research
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I am currently a guest artist at residency GinDS (https://ginds.org/) from April to July 2026:

On April 1, I began a residency at GinDS, located in a former bunker. Here, I continue The Familiar, an artistic investigation into how the sense of “home” emerges and shifts. I depart from the idea of the familiar: that which seems known, but can never be fully fixed, and becomes tangible precisely through its shifts, and at times, its turning points.

The first chapter of The Familiar developed through a collective process with children. Through conversations, drawings, and shared constructions, we explored what “home” can be: a place, a memory, a language, or a group of people. When one of the children suddenly moved away, his absence became immediately perceptible. What was missing began to shape what remained, and emptiness functioned as a kind of shadow against which everything else took on form.

In this second chapter, I work in isolation. The bunker does not function as a backdrop, but as a research instrument: a space in which absence is already embedded in the material itself, and where the unknown takes precedence over the familiar. Time slows down, withdraws, and at times seems to come to a standstill. The absence of daylight and the enclosed structure demand a different mode of perception, in which presence reveals itself precisely through what is missing.

In this context, I explore how a place gradually becomes one’s own through being there, remaining, and looking.

This research is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

© 2024 by David Wasch. All rights reserved.

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