a house is not a home (by lilith)
DESCRIPTION
Overview of my self-portraits in my own house as well as in strangers' houses from 2006 till 2013. Dimensions 30 x 25 cm landscape, 228 pages, full color, hardcover bound, an original picture included Multilingual: Dutch, English, German Design Edwin Smet Price euro 39.50 inc 6% VAT Shippingcosts within the Netherlands euro 10.00 (shippingcosts abroad to be agreed) ISBN: 978-90-819714-1-6TRANSCRIPT
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Le droit de manifester, 2008
Golden triangle, 2012
Queen bed, 2012
Side table, 2010 Collection Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (nl)
‘Feeling a person of worth, equal to others, relativizes bending forward to serve.’
Banquet, 2008 Collection Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (nl)
‘Being flesh and blood doesn’t automatically imply being a piece of meat.’
Doing the laundry, 2007 Collection Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (nl)
‘I take everything as a challenge, it’s just a matter of perception.’
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From blue to white, 2010 Collection Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (nl)
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Looking for love to compensate the emotional abuse. But then again: I am weed.
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Dutch Art Photographer
Henriëtte van Gasteren
(Sevenum, 1964), using the artist
name Lilith, is a storyteller with
a passion for photography. Since
2006 her self-portraits have been
telling her stories. Her recurring
themes have been women,
identity, female archetypes,
gender bending and of course,
life itself. But above all freedom
and equality.
Lilith creates humorous, ironic
self-portraits around her own
home. A house shows who we are
and over 5 years Lilith shared her
home with her audience. Every
corner of the room appears in
her extraordinary photography.
A story in images about women,
vulnerability, eroticism and
much more.
In 2012 the time for change had
come. For her latest series of self-
portraits home owners unknown
to her have offered their houses
as sets. After she contacted the
newspapers dozens of house ow-
ners offered their homes for her
new self-portraits. Lilith visited
the houses, often without the
presence of the owner, their faith
in her shown by giving her their
house keys and carte blanche to
use the rooms as she wished.
Lilith, in both her life and her
work communicates with the
things discovered around her so
in these new and strange sites
the artistic possibilities explode
with sometimes surprising re-
sults. Her photography changed
but still remained unmistakably
‘Lilith’.
Dutch and German translations of all texts from page 218
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A house is not a home, 2012 Collection Limburgs Museum, Venlo (nl)