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In October 2020, the Waterworks project started at Buitenplaats Brienenoord. Waterworks is about our relationship with water. Six different artists do research on this relationship one after the other and create new work here. Six different approaches, six different studies. The Waterworks.

The last artist to work on the island is Josje Hattink. In her preliminary investigation, Hattink hid in the bushes on the Eiland van Brienenoord. Dressed in a bright orange coat, she managed to remain invisible to the beast that haunts and around the island. She searched for tracks and spoke to unwitting walkers. Had they seen the water wolf yet?

Water wolf
Waterwolf is about the animalization of nature on and around the Island of Brienenoord. Nature is self-evident, but it is man who interprets it. With her project, Josje Hattink wants to show that it is precisely there that the imagination runs wild with us. On an island like that of Brienenoord, such an interpretation is ambiguous: on the one hand, people think they are safe with the water as a moat around the island. Everything that lives and moves is easy to manage. But on the other hand, that security is only apparent. The water creeps and creeps with the tides, but remains unpredictable. In the work Waterwolf, the visitor to this nature reserve is guided over the island with information boards and slowly drifts away from reality. The water wolf is real.

Presentation Josje Hattink
On Sunday 13 February, Hattink will present the results of her research at Buitenplaats Brienenoord. Between 12 and 17 pm you can stop by and eat a special Waterworks snack, then look for the signs she has placed on the island. At 15 pm the writer Katinka van Gorkum and the artist will give a special tour. You can make a reservation for this at reservation@buitenplaatsbrienenoord.nl. There are 15 places available for this tour.

Address: Van Brienoord 5, Rotterdam | There is no parking on the island, there is ample parking at the bicycle bridge, 'Brug Zuiddiepje'

This project is partly realized thanks to a contribution from the scheme artistic activities in the city† With this contribution, CBK Rotterdam wants to use visual art to make the city more attractive and to give Rotterdam visual artists a role in it, thereby increasing their visibility.