Galerie Bernhard | Kinke Kooi Growing the Seeds of Love

Kinke Kooi, Growing the Seeds of Love, 2021

Kinke Kooi, I will always be around, 2018,
acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 103 x 66 cm

Kinke Kooi, I will always be around, 2018,
acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 103 x 66 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, I will always be around, 2018,
acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper,
103 x 66 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Identification, 2008, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper,
51 x 36 cm

Kinke Kooi, Identification, 2008, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper,
51 x 36 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Searching for Immanence, 2020, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper, 57 x 76.2 cm

Kinke Kooi, Searching for Immanence, 2020, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper, 57 x 76.2 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Support, 2012, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, and gouache on paper, 102 x 66 cm

Kinke Kooi, Support, 2012, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, and gouache on paper, 102 x 66 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, The Way I Look, 2005, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 18 x 25.5 cm

Kinke Kooi, Hold me, 2013, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 16.5 x 29 cm

Kinke Kooi, Index, 2021, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper and clam shells, 21 x 21 cm

Kinke Kooi, Index, 2021, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper and clam shells, 21 x 21 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Hospitality, 2016, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache, collage on paper, each 152 x 100 cm

Kinke Kooi, Hospitality, 2016, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache, collage on paper, each 152 x 100 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Housewife, 2008, acrylic and collage on paper, 36 x 57 cm

Kinke Kooi, Roots, 2009, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 29 x 26.5 cm

Kinke Kooi, Preventing the Sharp from/for being sharp, 2015, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 30 x 23 cm

Kinke Kooi, Logos Eros, 2009, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 32.5 x 23 cm

Kinke Kooi, Sweet Care, 2019, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 23 x 31 cm

Kinke Kooi, Growing the Seeds of Love, 2021, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper, 152 x 100 cm

Kinke Kooi, Growing the Seeds of Love, 2021, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache and collage on paper, 152 x 100 cm (Detail)

Kinke Kooi, Bonding, 2019, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 103 x 66 cm

Kinke Kooi, Bonding, 2019, acrylic, pencil, fineliner, gouache on paper, 103 x 66 cm (Detail)

Growing the Seeds of Love

For me, in a strange way, decoration has to do with making connections. That’s why I fill in spaces in between: to dissolve opposition. To be overwhelmed by nature is to dissolve into a bigger whole. It is an inclusive situation, which for me is the same as a domestic situation.

Inviting strangers into your house can create complications. It is the same with ideas: to be open to new information also creates complications. I have always been suspicious of purity. Purity discriminates. Purity is about exclusion rather than inclusion. When one is open to guests and new ideas, it interrupts one’s autonomy. I like that thought. I want to promote hospitality.

I believe things should be allowed to mix. After I had my daughter I became more interested than ever in the images that she would see in her lifetime. I was shocked by how one-dimensional images of women still are in our culture. I call that visual loneliness. I think femininity still deserves and needs to be visualised from more perspectives. I would like to fill in these gaps in our visual information.

Kinke Kooi.

Review by Mateo Chacon-Pino