DREAMS BY THE SEA / DEN HELDER 2023

Since 2016, Femke Kempkes and Machteld Aardse have been working in Den Helder and developing the light projections (editions 2016/2018/2019/2023), collaborating with the local fishermen, the old navy dockyard, residents and refugees. The theme of 'leaving and returning' is always central. In the last composition created for the façade of Theater De Kampanje in Den Helder, 6 collages were created for which we zoom in the relation humans and the sea.

We use site-specific material, related to the place or the building and the façade forms a medium to project the information back to the site. This is called 'performing urban memory'. The process is a mix of analogue and digital work resulting in analogue slides (18x18 cm). The art work is realized in the context of the Den Helder light route ‘Helder Licht’.