Gezin Furnée met Jaap en Corry Quarles van Ufford in Duitsland tijdens een reis langs de Rijn 1931 - 1937

This is "Gezin Furnée met Jaap en Corry Quarles van Ufford in Duitsland tijdens een reis langs de Rijn," a collection of photographs collated by Carolina (Loentje) Frederika Onnen. It’s hard to put a date on it, but the overall effect is one of memory and place. What strikes me most is the physical arrangement of the photographs and the handwritten captions in the borders, they give it the feeling of a travel journal. It's like a personal story, told not only through the images themselves but through the way they’re organized on the page. There is a casual, almost improvisational quality to the composition, echoing an approach to artmaking which embraces process. Think of artists like Gerhard Richter who worked extensively with photography to explore memory and history. There's also a connection to the work of Christian Boltanski, who used found photographs in his installations to evoke the fragility of human existence. Ultimately, the artist is exploring the intersection of personal and collective memory and the ways in which these memories are shaped by place and time. There is a deep sense of ambiguity which invites multiple interpretations, and offers no fixed meanings.