ik snap er niks van Concept
Front page of the initial web shop
The front page (pdf) of the initial iksnaperniksvan web-shop.
Concept
The ik-snap-er-niks-van/ ικ-σναπ-ερ-νικς-φαν project came to life on 23 December 2017, initially in the form of a web shop. In the design, the concept sentence is given in Greek letters and also entails the head of an astronaut. The design plays with the notion of identity, the communication between people, and the philosophical idea that what we can really know is that we know nothing. The mixed nonsensical language and the self-negating statement offer a playful ground where communication attempts may flourish.
The project ik-snap-er-niks-van entails presentations that expand on its form and meaning. The project was included in the Dutch magazine for artistic research DeFKa Research SC in 2022 (nr. 05).
‘Ik snap er niks van’ is the Dutch expression for ‘I don’t understand a thing’ or ‘I don’t get it’. Written in Greek characters, the sentence becomes bilingual and visual for that matter.
The ik-snap-er-niks-van project is inspired from and dedicated to all the people who admit to not understand what’s going on. In what situation? You name it!
History
The printing technique that was chosen was silk-screen printing, both for printing on fabric and on paper. With the help of the artist K_Van and the instructors at the Grafische Werkplaats in The Hague (https://www.grafischewerkplaats.nl/), the first batch of T-shirts was printed in 2017. At the same time, 100 prints of the design, in bigger size, were printed on handmade paper of dimensions about 86 x 60 cm–a one-time operation. The art prints were then painted with watercolors, making each one a unique work of art. At a later stage we also printed a small version of the design on paper of various sizes. This collection of prints/ artworks has never been presented outside the studio walls. See “In another view” here.
