Tenniswedstrijd 1911 - 1912

This album page with the image of a tennis match was made by Carolina (Loentje) Frederika Onnen, sometime in the 20th century. It's made of multiple snapshots, almost like a collage. I wonder if this was a family archive, or a series of found images? There's something about the black and white surface that makes me want to think about Gerhard Richter. Richter accumulated images like this, and reworked them in paint, blurring and scraping the surfaces. Like Richter, Onnen may have been seeking a kind of truth that can only emerge through the process of working with an image, responding to it intuitively. What does the act of repetition suggest? How does the artist engage with the materiality of their medium, and how does this shape the way we experience it? As an artist, sometimes you don’t know exactly what you want to make, but you are driven by a feeling that something needs to be done. That's when the conversation begins. It becomes a dialogue between you and the work.