Heidi Linck is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the poetic dimension of neglected spaces and their capacity to convey a sense of loss while opening up potential forms of imagination. The encounter between collective and individual memory is expressed in both her works on paper and her photographs of models: the dark tones of her gouaches echo the somber atmosphere in which her sculptural objects are immersed.
Her series Pounding Shadows depicts corners of abandoned everyday sites resting in diffuse obscurity. The models do not explicitly reveal their original subjects, leaving the task of reconstruction to the viewer, who can recognise or imagine fragments of pools, clad walls, sections of construction sites, or forgotten corners of unidentified buildings, remnants of previous lives or traces retraceable within one’s own past. In these silent environments, coloured clues and patterns open up the possibility of rebirth, a glimpse of future openings and the potential transformation of the derelict corner into a new, inhabitable space.
Heidi Linck’s drawings explore multiple variations of black through different techniques, from acrylic graphite paint to lamp black gouache and jet-black pigment. They depict material patterns, silhouettes, and shadows of similarly forgotten places, which the artist inhabits through her imagination, mentally exploring, transforming, and progressively translating them onto paper. Both the photographs of models and the drawings convey a sense of suspension that places the observer in an uneasy zone, while allowing the mind to wander into uncharted territory, rich with unexpressed potential.
My own palace 1
My own palace 2
Pounding Shadow 1
Pounding Shadow 7
Pounding Shadow 11
Renarrated Space 7
Interior 13
Interior 17
Performative Silence 1
All works © and courtesy of Heidi Linck.
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