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    Simon Heijdens


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    Biography


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    Selected works

    Shade
    Shade V&A Museum
    Lightweeds
    Lightweeds UMNH
    Lightweeds Royal Visit UK
    Lightweeds Royal Visit US
    Silent Room
    Phare No. 1-9
    Tree
    Branches
    Boijmans van Beuningen
    3 Rising Slowly
    Marble Chair
    Broken White
    Reed



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    Exhibitions


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    Press / Reviews


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    Contact


    Studio Simon Heijdens
    74 Canrobert Street
    London E2 6PX
    United Kingdom
    studio@simonheijdens.com

    instagram @simonheijdens
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    Reed


    Nature is becoming rare in daily life. In the way the urbanising world is generally built and planned, our everyday surroundings are increasingly perpetual and static through conditioned climates and 24 hour lighting. When unpredictable natural elements such as a lifting breeze, a sudden shower, or a setting sun are planned out of our surroundings, the timeline of our everyday is lost.

    A group of elements that overgrows objects and areas in a space providing both lighting and covering to make muted spots inside a room. The reeds translate outside nature to the indoor space, by slightly waving when a windgust passes the building, as measured by a windsensor that is connected to the reeds. The wind traveling through the reeds has a speed and intensity precisely depending on the force and direction of the windgusts that rise up and lay down throughout the day. The space becomes subtle in spring, intense in autumn - the space regains the natural character that it has walled out.


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    2006


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    Exhibitions


    Amsterdam, Netherlands - Lloyd Hotel - 02/2010
    Eindhoven, Netherlands - Family of Form - 01/2008
    Amsterdam, Netherlands - BKVB - 10/2007
    Rotterdam, Netherlands - Tent 09/2007
    New York, USA - Milk gallery - 05/2007
    Amsterdam, Netherlands - Montevideo 09/2006
    Los Angeles, USA - ACME Gallery - 06/2006
    Milan, Italy - TH Gallery - 04/2006



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