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“Are you still there?” is a bittersweet, nostalgic and naive reincarnation of the artist's childhood drawing that she used to make together with her grandmother, who currently lives under Russian occupation. As there is no internet and often no electricity in her hometown, the only means of communication are telephone calls and short conversations, the phrases from which were taken and hidden on the walls of the room. The exhibition uses lively and playful language to talk about reminiscence, the feeling of a lack of something that you can not really grasp and a sense of longing for the past and acknowledgment of the present.


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Are you still there?

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Visual artist Karina Puuffin and game composer Nathan Bonkerk unraveled their work in conversation and discovered new insights about their own practice and work methods. Bonkerk was challenged in the process to express his music in images. Puuffin used elements of this in a spatial installation in which letting go of the familiar/traditional is central.



_For the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Piet Mondriaan, the Mondriaanhuis brought together 7 composers and 7 visual artists to create a new work in the formed duo’s. Example I: Blend was made specifically for the exhibition Onbegrensd (Unlimited) that took place in the Mondriaanhuis from September 4th, 2022 to March 5, 2023 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands._


Example I: Blend

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 _written by Hilde Dorrestein_


(...) Later it was finished. The possibilities were crystallised. For now. For this place, for this artwork.

The whole space was the work of art, and I could move freely in it. I had to move, that came naturally. Look there, a "splash" on the ceiling, and a "splash" on the wall, just like the pink one I saw earlier. It was all movement here, now artificially stopped. Because such a stain cannot remain there, it drips. Those stuffed “animals” will crawl, of course, when no one is looking. And that construction balances with a sweet desire. Nothing stood still. It was just paused at this very specific point. Like you can freeze a film on a certain frame. A movie wasn't there. The image is what was there. It filled the room. Exactly how it was deliberately intended.

With all that life. That only stops for a moment. Right here.

What Karina does here as an artist takes me right back to how we all started in early childhood. Tireless and unbeatable. With fantasy and magical thinking that actually had its own answers to everything. Before all the conventions and insights that come with growing up paralyzed our imaginations, and we began to understand that it wasn't all that easy after all.

Certainly, Karina plays with concepts and materials that she deprives of their normal art meaning and for that game she also uses work by previous artists. With verve and self-confidence.

In her art descriptions I read that she consciously wants to take a stand against prevailing traditional art concepts. There is indeed a recognizable empty list here. The work of art has visibly crept out of the frame and has unabashedly rolled out over the entire room. But actually I don't need to know that. I am simply and directly surprised by the zest for life that flies around my ears unbridled.


_Read the full text on [hildekijktkunst.nl](https://hildekijktkunst.nl/)_

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Zomerexpositie

Are you still there?

Example I: Blend

Zomerexpositie

Untitled

Холст IIХолст II. "This feels like a Living Room"

Square painting

Холст I

Untitled (2020)

Variation 1

Red & Green

Work