Poster by artist Hans Overvliet does what many people cannot: travel By Myrthe Prins 12-07-20, 17:21 Source: PZC
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MIDDELBURG - How obvious is it that we can cross borders? Many Dutch people have only had to think about that question since the Corona crisis. Just now that we are less mobile, artist Hans Overvliet came up with a project that travels all over the world. “I saw a picture of a road in Zeeland Flanders with a concrete roadblock completed with a sign saying: forbidden for all traffic. I thought that was rather special ”, Hans Overvliet tells in ruimteCAESUUR, the contemporary art space on the Lange Noordstraat in Middelburg; a space that his partner Willy van Houtum and he have been managing since 1995. It fascinated the artist that borders were suddenly closed because of a virus. At the same time, this made him think about the naturalness with which we have traveled so far. “One of the things we are promised is that we can go anywhere. For example, if we want to go on holiday to Bali, we can. All over the world there is geard up a complete infrastructure to make coffee for us and cook food for us, etc. But for how many people this is actually true? Several hundred