'November 22nd, 1948' Marcel Van Eeden at Spruth Magers

[TAKEN FROM PRESS RELEASE]

'Since 1993, van Eeden...has almost exclusively worked in 'nero' pencil to articulate a series of events that are part of a continuous yet inherently unstable narrative in constant flux. Van Eeden is fascinated by this notion of absence, of "non being", as espoused in the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. For van Eeden, the time before his birth is equivalent to the time after his death. "When you were not yet around, it did not affect anyone, and when you will no longer be there, everything will, in fact, be the same."'

'...his work is loosely hewn together out of the residue of life, snippets of text and images from forgotten or ignored situations. Van Eeden's refusal to adhere to a linear chronological narrative structure, to use sources that represent a recognizable connection with a specific time, place or person, subscribes to the notion of History as fragmentary and fluid as opposed to an absolute and static view of the past. For van Eeden, History - and the process of narration - is fundamentally unstable and incoherent by definition, mirroring the way in which the human mind sorts and accesses the past through memory.'