Els.

Eight life-size cow portraits, painted on plywood wooden plates.
Each painting is constructed on the basis of 3 colors, red / yellow / blue, and these are mixed into a unique interpretation of the colors. The portraits were installed as performances in an old stable and presented one by one at the place where the dairy cows were normally milked. Between the old hanging bars, stone cribs, metal drinking troughs, ... The viewer walked through the corridor of the stable with on each side a painted portrait of the living cow that normally stood there. The cows look at you anxiously, embarrassed or shyly and keep staring at you wherever you look at them. Why do they look that way? Why are they staring at you? Do they want to communicate with the viewer?
The dark background refers to the dark stable, where a cow appears one by one. This way you get a unique portrait, almost a static portret, of every cow or bull
At a distance they seem like lives, from closer you see the impression of the colors.
"They are Mona Lisa cows, they keep looking at you wherever you look at them" - visitor