Feest 1939

This photo album page, “Feest,” of unknown date, origin, and maker, contains a set of black and white photographs. Like the pages of a scrapbook, it presents a kind of informal archive of an event or period. The visual texture of the photographs on the page, their arrangement and juxtaposition, speak to a process of documentation and storytelling, of a moment captured in time. It’s the kind of materiality that attracts me - it makes me think of the way Kurt Schwitters used found objects in his collages, assembling fragments to create new wholes. The dark tone of the album page provides a contrasting ground for the monochromatic prints, which are presented as if they are contact sheets, offering a way to reflect on the interplay between individual images and their collective impact. This page reminds me that the meaning of art is always unfixed. Like the pages of a diary, its interpretation shifts with each viewing.