About the work

“(…) think that each of kooi’s soft encapsulating lines is a thought. thoughts are sonic. it is now believed that sound travels faster than light. each thought has a frequency. the frequency is the information. the body understands this information before the intellect does. the body is constantly massaged by thoughts. the repetition of the line is vibration just as repetition of the thought forms a chant, an incantation, strengthening the communication. this is nourishment. this is mother. mother permeates everything. on a practical level, i think of kinke’s drawings as social responsibility, dripping with riches.”

-Fragment of a text by Hudson, 2009

About the artist

KINKE KOOI (b.1961 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands) attended the Academy for the Visual Arts in Arnhem. From 1998 through 2013, Kooi had five one-person exhibitions with Feature, Inc., New York. Kooi has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and has participated in group exhibitions at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, both California: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, among other venues. Her work is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Arnhem Museum, Arnhem; Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York. Kinke Kooi lives and works in Arnhem, the Netherlands.