"The longer I don't travel, the more I dare to look at where I live. I see how my new surroundings take care of me. How the baker and the greengrocer bring my groceries to my door every Saturday morning. How all kinds of people call this their village, their neighborhood, their home. I see families who have lived here for generations, I see refugees, outcasts, and graduates, I see urban diversity mixed with a small village frame of mind."
Robin de Puy has lived for several years in Wormer, a small village surrounded by water just north of Amsterdam. She is fascinated by rural America and discovered during the recent lockdown that her new surroundings also turn out to be very universal, with the same kind of small-town local icons she has often encountered during her travels through the landscapes of America.
Robin de Puy (1986) studied at the Fotoacademie Rotterdam and has previously exhibited at institutions and galleries including the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2018), the Fotomuseum Den Haag (2016), the Stedelijk Museum Breda (2016) and Photoville, New York (2016). Among numerous other awards, De Puy won the National Portrait Prize in both 2013 and 2019. Her work is in important public and private collections, including the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht; Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague. Photos by De Puy are very regularly published in De Volkskrant, among others, and in photo books.
The Mondriaan Fund, the public incentive fund for visual arts and cultural heritage, has made this exhibition possible.
The official opening of ‘Water & Meer’ will take place today June 14th from 15.00 to 17:00 at Museum Henriette Polak in Zutphen, the Netherlands. You can register for the opening using the button below.
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