| Pieter-Rim and Maarten
de Kroon describe Dutch Light as being purely about light and
observation. ‘While researching the project we realised
that the film was mainly about a certain way of looking. When
Joseph Beuys said that the only faculty the Dutch possessed
was the sense of sight, and that land reclamation in the Zuyder
Zee brought an end to Holland’s unique visual culture
of the 17th century – then it’s all about observation.
Beuys’s formulation may have been hyperbolic, but it
contains more than a grain of truth.’ |
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