Description
Risobook, Black and White – SPECIAL EDITION !
Drawings
Poems
Release: February 2025
Edition of 20, hand-numbered and signed, 24 pages
Only 15 left
comes with extra risoposter (A4)
book is 195 x 135 cm, with smaller poetry booklet sewn in
Cahier stitch
Comes in a parchment bag with stamp
Drawings of Danielle Lemaire, Poems by Jolanda Kooijmans, Risostenciled at Knust Press Nijmegen, Typography Alfred Boland, Photography Danielle Lemaire and Peter Cox.
Note: All texts in the book are in Dutch.
The book comes out in relation to a longer going project of Danielle and in the context of ‘Hollywood on Flores’ at Missiemuseum Steyl, 17 january – 29 june 2025
The drawings in this book reflect on the character of Ria Rago, a Florinese girl who fights against the arranged marriage with a Muslim in the colonial mission film of the same name (by Father Simon Buis, 1930), on her way to ‘freedom’.
Ria’s village life in the Flores of that time shines through the colonial film images.
Ria Rago’s story was rewritten in 1938 in the adat novel ‘Ria Rago’, by the Tilburg priest and Indologist Piet Heerkens (SVD). Heerkens spent a long time on the island of Flores and got to know the population and their language during his mission. In 1948 he wrote the wonderful epic ‘Het Lied van Saka Ladja’.
Danielle is fascinated by these stories and lets them return in her work.
Who was Ria Rago really? She looks like a sister. Who was her God? Is she family?
Was she free? Can she be set free in the drawings?
Danielle tries to get to know Ria Rago and her community through her work.
