Birthdays
2025
ROLLEIFLEX WORKS
CLEMENTINE
2022
Haarlemmerdijk, Amsterdam
ROLLEIFLEX WORKS
lucila novoa
2022
Portraiture series for Rotterdam based artist Lucila Novoa for ‘from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background ‘ (2022)
Project descriptions from multiple stated sources.
from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background - a new performative work inspired by José Esteban Muñoz’s (1967-2013) ‘The sense of Brown’ and ‘all about love’ by bell hooks (1952 -2021). I invited Ellen Mary Rooijakkers and Lucciana Bolivar to be part of a transformative process of ‘displacement’, its meaning and manifestation.
from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background exhibition view. image credit: jhoeko.
In lucie draai’s work, displacement is key and she investigates all its connotations: the loss of a native place and environment, or a literal displacement, voluntarily or unintentionally, and thus ‘movement’. From her personal history of adoption from Colombia to the Netherlands, displacement has set in motion an irreversible process, in which questions about origin and identity remain unanswered, because crucial information is missing and therefore continuous movement may be the only constant and reliable factor.
For ‘from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background’, lucie invited her dear friend Ellen Mary Rooijakkers to design a costume for the performance to take place in Daily Practice. Ellen has made five ephemeral and literally layered garments from tulle, transparent but at the same time quite stiff material, each in a different (skin)tone.
lucie draai asked Lucciana Bolivar as a queer person of color to take analog portrait photos, over a 24-hour period; a conscious choice to look beyond the white, patriarchal, normative gaze.
Lucciana spent an evening, night, morning and afternoon with lucie, her partner and their pets. An intimate and realistic portrait on a hot, oppressive summer day.
novoa series of 5 medium size analog photos made with a Rolleiflex 3.5 camera. Printed on Fuji color Crystal Archive photographic color paper, matt, 180 gr. 40 x 40 cm image size ( additional 3,5 cm white spacer) Edition 5 + 2 AP. Photos taken by Lucciana Bolivar in collaboration with lucie draai. Printed by Fotolab Amsterdam. Image credit: jhoeko.
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Lucciana Bolivar
Lucciana is a Honduran/Colombian mixed-media artist and poet who began autodidactic practices in 2011.
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Lucciana Bolivar
