in*visible consists of a series of works about the (in)visibility of vulnerability and the bodily need for compassion.

The series  in*visible is ambiguous: both the title and the installation can be interpreted in multiple ways. It invites the visitor to view the work from both afar and up close. From afar, one can see hands that seem to form themselves into bowls. Up close, one detects small perforations in the paper that seem to form huddled figures. This hidden drawing interacts with the hands, shifting the meaning when you change your point of view.

The drawings shows the process in Cindy van Woudenberg’s work where she intuitively perforated the contours of her own body on the sheet and drew the hands that instinctively matched the fragility of her feelings.

Reading material through this process was the philosophical theory of Merleau-Ponty.  He emphasised the body as the primary site of knowing the world, and maintained that the perceiving body and its perceived world could not be disentangled from each other.