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WHAT TOUCH LEAVES BEHIND

Acrylic on artificial gold leather 138 × 98 cm, 2026
This painting introduces intimacy into a system of value.
Gesture softens, movement becomes bodily, and gold shifts from ground to skin.
Touch does not dominate the surface. It lingers.
Here, gold records care rather than control.
What remains is not possession, but trace.
#HarmkeDatemaChang #ContemporaryPainting #Materiality #goldenseries

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Tudo pra agora
layer I

The work begins on the floor.

Working at this scale means entering the image: walking, kneeling, reaching, and allowing the body to establish its rhythm. Lines travel across the surface, gestures overlap, and the materials remain inside the field as temporary markers of the process.
This is the first layer of a larger installation inspired by @brunoberle_ and presented as part of Let Them Eat Paint. The work will continue to change as new layers alter the way it occupies the space.
Everything, now: not as a finished image, but as a form still becoming.

Title inspired by tudo pra agora by Batata Boy, Bruno Berle & Snowfuks.

#TudoPraAgora #LetThemEatPaint #HarmkeDatemaChang #InstallationArt #PaintingProcess ContemporaryArt

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LET THEM EAT PAINT
A new chapter in the work of Harmke Datema-Chang.

A new solo show. October 4.
More soon.
@kaap.space
#painting #scuplture #installation #performance

Music strings intro Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees

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The last painting I made in this studio.

I allowed the surface to come away from the wall, folding and collapsing the painting into its own space.

The final gesture was not to finish it, but to let it change.

Studio experiment, 2026

#studioprocess #materialresearch #contemporarypainting #expandedpainting #materiality contemporaryart processbasedart sculpturalpainting

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Coming together.
Parts of epoxy were allowed to merge while still liquid. Other parts hardened separately and were connected afterwards.
The process moves between letting things happen and intervening — between separation and connection.
Looking at the resulting image, I started to see something resembling fertilisation, or the interdependence of opposing forms in yin and yang. Not as an illustration, but as an abstraction: forms meeting, entering, separating and becoming something else.
Letting the process determine part of the work.

Studio experiment, 2026

#studioprocess #materialresearch #contemporarypainting #expandedpainting #materiality contemporaryart processbasedart sculpturalpainting

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Fragments, dried layers, painted surfaces and leftover material are brought together rather than discarded.

As they accumulate, painting starts to lose its surface. Colour becomes thickness, weight and volume.

What was left from making becomes material for making again.

Studio experiment, 2026

#materialresearch #studioprocess #sculpture #expandedpainting #materiality contemporaryart processbasedart artiststudio

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What remains of a painting when it is torn apart?

The painted canvas is torn into strips, breaking the image into fragments.

Instead of trying to reconstruct what was there, I let the fragments become part of another form. Parts disappear. Others become visible only through the act of tearing.

Destruction becomes part of making.

Studio experiment, 2026

#studioprocess #materialresearch #expandedpainting #sculpturalpainting #materiality contemporarypainting processbasedart

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What happens when the painting itself becomes material?

I started folding and shaping the painted canvas while the epoxy was still setting. Parts of the image disappeared into the folds, while other forms emerged.

I could influence the direction, but not fully predict what would remain visible once the material settled.

The painting was no longer only an image. Its surface, weight and resistance became part of the work.

Studio experiment, 2026

#studioprocess #materialresearch #contemporarypainting #expandedpainting #materiality contemporaryart processbasedart sculpturalpainting

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Going back to a series of studio experiments that became important for how I work today.
Working on unstretched canvas on the floor, I poured and moved paint and epoxy across the surface.
I could decide where to begin, how much material to use, when to move it, but not exactly where it would settle.
At some point, the material started making decisions with me.
Letting the process determine part of the work.
Studio experiment, 2026
#studioprocess #materialresearch #contemporarypainting #experimentalpainting #materiality contemporaryart artiststudio processbasedart

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Open Studio Saturday 30 May

Preparing for BEFORE DISAPPEARANCE.
Some works arrive slowly.
Some remain unresolved.
Some may disappear again.

A temporary presentation of recent paintings, installations and ongoing research.

Dj set by: Metz
19:00 hrs

#artstudıo #contemporaryart #painting

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BEFORE DISAPPEARANCE
Open studio
Saturday 30 May
17:00–21:00
A temporary presentation of recent paintings, installations and ongoing research.
Dj set by: Metz @metz.m00n
19:00 hrs

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BEFORE DISAPPEARANCE Open studio — Utrecht
Works held in suspension before entering new installations, exhibitions, and states of transformation.
30 May — 19 June  Other visits by appointment.
Address Alkhof 55 A

#artist #artiststudio #artworks

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