When I visited my aunt i found out she wasn’t using the the first floor of the house, because she was physically enabled to walk the stairs. Her bed moved to the ground level of the house and the first and second floor where left abandoned. I started my research and people told me about their aunts, grandfathers, mothers and neighbors who couldn’t walk the stairs anymore and never visited the upstairs rooms. So I wandered around these rooms and found an opportunity to make a portrait of these peoples lives and history and also telling a story about their present lives.
‘Bovenkamers’ is the Dutch translation for ‘Upstairs’. In this project ‘Bovenkamers’ also refers to the head or the mental state of the people who live(d) in these houses.
15 prints, 20×30 cm printed on recycled paper in wooden lists 30×40 cm
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