Harmen de Hoop

Harmen de Hoop

Half a basketball court on a new housing estate, ending abruptly at a footpath, a phone booth labelled rather optimistically HOTEL, a fire extinguisher affixed to a pillar-box. Creator unknown. This hefty cardboard book presents photographs by Dutch artist Harmen de Hoop...

He works without a client, installing his “landscape adjunct” illegally and anonymously. He does not publicize its installation nor does he force the passer-by to pay attention. Arranged by correlative threads of content, the photographs capture the dystopian modernist cities of the Netherlands. With an emphasis on signage and architecture, punctuations of colour are evenly distributed throughout the photographs reflecting the instinctively organized structuring of images and social environments.