CANDY COINS by Femke Schaap
spatial video-installation 2026 (styrofoam, paint, mirrors, digital video 4 min loop)
The Dutch artist Femke Schaap is known for her life-size, spatial video installations, in which she projects film and animation onto silhouette cut-out screens. Her video installations always begin with the space they inhabit. Using light and weightless materials such as foam board and plaster, she constructs forms through which the viewer can physically or visually wander. Photographic imagery from virtual worlds or interfering graphic patterns is projected to fit the contours of the screens, thereby granting them an alluring sense of dimensionality. In doing so, the artist creates a universe that is both solid and tangible, yet simultaneously elusive and ephemeral. In this way, her installations question the boundaries of objecthood and explore the edges of sculpture.
The gallery-sized installation Candy Coins #4 is part of the ongoing series COLOR BARS, which consists of sculptural representations of leisure venues and festival décor. In these works, visitors can literally dwell within a virtual world of attraction and instant experience. Candy Coins refers to festival booths where virtual currency is sold and mimics the way objects and products are displayed and exhibited in shop windows or museum showcases.
