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Laure-Anne Vermaercke – NG-1983-1
By Laure-Anne Vermaercke, translated by Laura Vroomen
Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. They have taken inspiration from the question: what do you see when you look at these objects with an eye for invisible labour? Laure-Anne Vermaercke invites us to take a very close look at the Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation, made by Gerrit Schouten in c. 1815 – c. 1821. ‘A miniature world made on commission.’
Gerrit Schouten, Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation, c. 1815 – c. 1821
© Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
© Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam