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About

Dear visitor of(f) the screen..

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This is a process-based archive dedicated to reflecting on, documenting and exploring my artistic practice. Here, I collect and juxtapose works, documentation, publications, images, texts, notes and other fragments from different moments in time.

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Rather than presenting the work as a chronological sequence of completed projects, the archive reflects the way my practice develops. Works and ideas often remain open, return in different forms, are reworked, or enter into new relationships with things made at another moment.

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The digital platform allows me to revisit my work from different perspectives, both literally and figuratively. By bringing material together in different constellations, I can examine how images, works and ideas interact, and how connections and contrasts might reveal something new. What you find here ranges from finished works and publications to research notes, reflections, stories, observations and spontaneous ideas.

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The archive is both a working space for myself and a space open to visitors. Like the work itself, it remains open and subject to change.

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Practical note: You can adjust the platform's layout and scale to your preferred zoom level by holding the Command (⌘) key on Mac or the Ctrl key on Windows while scrolling the mouse wheel.

david wasch, art, studio, research
david wasch, art, studio, research

It's a place where images glance at one another,
catching fragments of conversation.

 

They seem to recognize each other,
yet at the same time, they appear new.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

© 2024 by David Wasch. All rights reserved.

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