L.A. RAEVEN
1971, Heerlen, Holland. Live and work in Amsterdam


“You are me.” This video-installation is based on a true story about the silent war between twin-sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons about the right to have once own personality and the tremendous fear to lose each other, not be able to live with or without each other. They created a world where they excluded all outside contact, making a pact not to speak to anyone but each other, transferring their anger to the outside world, us against them, like a gang of two. This piece plays with the provocation that can be considered sane or insane, and tries to put the viewer in a position in which he is not able to judge…
— L.A.Raeven

Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: Casco Projects, Utrecht; Charim, Vienna; Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Upcoming CCA Kiev, Fries Museum Leeuwarden, MMK Arnhem; 2002: Wild Zone 1, Wild Zone 2, ICA, London; Kwangju Biennale, South Korea; Commitment, Fonds BKVB, Las Palmas/ Rotterdam; Lookalike, NFI, Rotterdam; Body Electric, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, USA; 2001: The Infected Garden, Lux Centre, London; ARS AEVI rendez-vous 3, MAK, Sarajevo; Wild Zone, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Prodigal Prodigy, White Box , New York; 4FREE, Büro Friedrich, Berlin; 2000: Unlimited.nl #3, De Appel, Amsterdam; Prada in Hotel New York, P.S.1, New York; La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome; Transact, Museum in Progress, Vienna; Test Room, Marres, Maastricht.




White Love, 2001. Video stills. Courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.

White Love, 2001. Video stills. Courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.