Karen Oostenbrink
Yvonne Perot 1913 - 1936

September 17  - October 17, 2008
Novels start like this. With a yellowed photograph album, found in an antique’s shop, a photo of a pretty young woman with a pixie hair cut inside. And with a young artist who begins to look for traces of this woman. Traces that lead her to a small town in Belgium and finally to a grave, and her realization: she shares her birthday with this unknown person. And the novel ends at last with an old man, living alone and forgotten in a castle, the surrounding garden long since overgrown. Once again, for the sake of the youthful visitor, he remembers his beloved cousin Yvonne Perot, who died at 23 during the birth of her first child. If that photographer happens to be Karen Oostenbrink, then this raw material does not end up as a novel or a film, but rather an artistic investigation, one finally spilling out into five hole patterns and a video.

Karen Oostenbrink (*1984 in Haarlem, NL) studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art at The Hague from 2002 to 2006. Since 2004, she studies art history at the University of Leiden and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2007, she is involved in the cooperative art gallery Komet Berlin.

www.komet-berlin.de