Artists Karin van Dam and Robbie Cornelissen joined forces for the exhibition 'Kantelpunt 1' in the Helmond Cocoa Factory. The result: impressive, human-sized installations consisting of black, knitted shapes – resembling water bubbling up from the earth – with accompanying drawings, grids and animations.
The three-part exhibition was characterised by Cornelissen’s light grey tones and Van Dam’s black, organic woollen shapes. The knitted shapes, which were complemented by trampolines, chicken wire and fenders, were all made in the TextielLab. The shapes refer to stupas and double drops.
Artist Karin van Dam (1959) is known for creating installations made with materials such as boat fenders, rope and insulation pipes. She sees her installations as spatial drawings through which viewers can walk. Indeed, the installations always start out as small drawings. Here too she often integrates spatial objects such as rubber caps, rope and wooden sticks. Urban structures and street patterns are an important source of inspiration, which she then translates freely and intuitively, guided by the possibilities that the chosen materials and objects offer her.
