Guido van der Linden

For Guido van der Linden, teacher and coach at the School for Young Talent in The Hague, an EKWC residency was a return to his artistic practice and to his favourite theme of hidden or implicit presence. First, he press-moulded several large (1 meter diameter) ceramic dishes, designed to transmit the delicate sound of a heartbeat across a thirty-meter distance. Keeping them in one piece posed considerable technical problems, which only made him enjoy it more. He proceeded with a set of tiles modelled on the pavers in the street leading to his grandfather’s home. Only when these demanding works were finished, he found the space to play and experiment, throwing slabs of clay against trees in the Oisterwijk forest for instance. The results capture an absence, an empty space to indicate that something once was there.