IRIS DONKER

Exhibition Liquid Highway
by Iris Donker

Apr. 24 – June 14, 2026

Liquid Highway is an ongoing artistic research  by Iris Donker, evolving from her earlier work The Family. What began as an exploration of personal image archives has expanded into a broader investigation of how images, voices, and memories circulate and transform over time.

The project draws from an expanding image archive composed of analogue photographs, ranging from slides made in the 1970s to more recent work. Images from family archives are brought into dialogue with newly produced photographs, forming a constellation of visual fragments that move across different moments in time. Rather than forming a linear narrative, these images function as a constellation, approaching family as a fluid network of relations, repetitions and transmissions. Images are translated into textiles, prints and projections, forming an immersive spatial installation. Overlapping and partially obscured, they resist fixed meaning or singular focus.

Alongside this visual research runs a correspondence with writer Alma Mathijsen. Through letters, Donker revisits a 1970s swimming pool photographed by her father—an abandoned site suspended in time. As past and present intersect, the exchange reveals a growing temporal dissonance.

Image, sound and text merge into a sensory environment where meaning emerges through movement and duration. The sound layer, developed in collaboration with musician Timo van Veen, moves alongside the imagery rather than illustrating it. The exhibition invites immersion rather than closure, allowing multiple time layers to coexist.