Alice's Question, 2020

Photos: Alice’s Question in De Vishal, Haarlem, Kleine Zaal, 225 x 175 cm, vinyl foil on glass and back panel; last image work in progress and drawing by Lewis Caroll.

The installation responds to ‘Camino del deseo’ group exhibition that was on view inside De Vishal.

With thanks to Claus Leinenbach (curator)

For this cabinet I’ve quoted 6 lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll (1886). ‘Where out I go from here?’ can be read, in a Dutch translation, on the glass window. Looking in you could read the rest of the dialogue between Alice and the Cheshire Cat.

‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘- so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’