Nature is a well-known place to escape to. For example, in Dutch you have the term "get a breath of fresh air" where people mean that they go to the beach / water to let go of everything for a while, to forget, this because of the hard cutting wind that howls past you. Nature is also an important theme in art. In Romanticism, for example, impressive landscapes were painted to show that man is nothing compared to nature. The splendor and power of the wild sea, the strong winds were regularly depicted. They fled to nature to escape the industrial revolution that was going on. In this room you see two contemporary artists who do the same, the escaping to the nature, using it as a safe haven.

3.1: Jospin, Eva. Forêt Palatine. 2020.
540 x 680cm

3.2: Jospin, Eva. Nymphées. 2019.
330 x 180 x 160cm

3.3: Kurland, Justine. Mama Baby, Birds. 2006.

3.4: Kurland, Justine. Bell Peppers. 2002.

3.5: Kurland, Justine. Children of the Canyon. 1999.

3.6: Kurland, Justine. The Family. 2002.

3.7: Kurland, Justine. Paradose Across the Dune, New Zealand. 2001.

Eva Jospin (1975) born in Paris, France is a visual artist known for her immense cardboard installations. Her installations form a dream world consisting of lush forests, romantic gazebos and dark caves. By working in these huge formats its almost as the viewer is literally part of her own dreamlike nature. Jospin turns a well-known and familiar material, without any aesthetic quality, into a material with little known and as yet undiscovered possibilities. Cut down trees become paper, paper is recycled into cardboard and Jospin makes trees again from cardboard.

Justine Kurland (1969) is a contemporary American photographer. Best known for her large-scale C-prints of rural landscapes inhabited by nude women, Kurland’s surreal images evoke pagan utopias or post-apocalyptic or pre-industrial worlds. Her work often depicts communes in rural America as her subject matter, inspired by 19th-century idyllic English landscape painting, children’s fairy tales, and Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs, among others sources.

Her work is about finding peace in nature, escaping the world and for woman, escaping the Her work portrays a situation where nothing is wrong, the women just do their thing and don't have to worry about the world outside nature, the real world. Just like the romantics, the work has the aim of fleeing to a world where you can escape from contemporary times and where you can be fascinated by the splendor of nature. Her work also has a political undertone, in addition to only showing untouched nature. The work sketches a utopian world, where women walk around as figures of resistance against the paternal and the male-dominated world.