Diane Jodes
WORKS
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Cicatrice Urbaine, DKolletif - VEWA Dudelange 2023
RELIEF
The sprawling steel production site surrounding VEWA reminds me of a disaster zone, prompting the immediate response to erect a shelter tent for any survivors.
I created this shelter from discarded materials donated by the local Red Cross Dudelange and also from my own accumulation of inherited, collected and saved materials. Old sheets, pillow cases, shirts, pants, napkins, table cloths, etc. were cut up and reconfigured into a giant patchwork to cover a standard ‘relief’ tent structure.
The installation can be interpreted in different ways. From the outside it presents itself as bright, cheerful and inviting, a cosy sight on rough terrain. Visitors who step inside will find traces of work, seams which are frayed, with rudimentary sewing connecting each piece, fragile materials supported by strong sturdy materials, old materials next to new synthetic materials. Perhaps a symbolic mirror of our society, or strong cells helping heal damaged cells, supporting and regenerating each other?
The installation offers a point of departure for visitors to create their own meaning and connections to the site.
Preserve(s)
exhibition project for
Fellner Contemporary
2022
paintings
prints
scenery
objects
In her new series of works, the artist deals with questions of preservation, which means the question of inheritance, keeping, holding in value or valuing.
We are all attached to certain objects, not necessarily because of their material value, but because they have always accompanied us, as objects of memories. Childhood memories of a silver spoon, the scissors skillfully used by grandmother, mysterious vases painted with flowers that were simply always there and fired out imagination. And, of course, old photos that keep blurred or vanished memories alive forever, always retroactively telling and shaping our own history.
section of exhibition text
by Hans Fellner
Havarie 2021
Havarie f (genitive Havarie, plural Havarien) accident, emergency (most often of a ship);
collision, crash, loss by sea
A pool in almost perfect condition, condemned to disappear in the near future.
HAVARIE seems to perfectly describe the condition of this site, which is sinking into destruction and oblivion.
A pool emptied of its water without a purpose, all but a volume in space.
HAVARIE spelled out at the bottom of the empty pool foretells the site’s future. Ambient sounds create an atmosphere alluding to activity past or present.
External visual stimuli coming through the large windows are blocked out, to help immerse the visitor in the pool’s familiar sounds, and to raise awareness of a new and strange atmosphere.
Sound recording and installation Diane Jodes
sound mixing and composition Rajivan Ayyappan
at Schwämm Strutzbierg, Dudelange (L)2021
Wanted 2019 XXL
printmaking residency organized
by and at Kulturhuef,Grevenmacher
theme: Luther, Gutenberg
and Steve Jobs
XXL woodcut formats 2,20m x 1,50m printed with a street- steamroller
during a 10 day event
exhibition of final works
June 20 - December 22, 2019
invited artists:
Diane Jodes (L)
Neckel Scholtus (L)
Anna Eiber (D)
Laas Koehler (D)
Thomas Peter (D)
As Time Goes By
Centre d'art Nei Liicht, Dudelange 2016
paintings
prints
sceneries
objects
view exhibition book here
Münsterland Festival
Part 8 Benelux, 2015
printmaking residency
at Kloster Bentlage
Rheine, Germany April 2015
participating BeNeLux printmakers
Thomas Amerlynck (B)
Patrick Mangnus (NL)
Diane Jodes (L)
3 exhibitions 3 artists
September 2105
at
Kunstverein Ahlen
Stadtmuseum Borken
Kloster Bentlage
Wanted 2010
printmaking residency
Kulturhuef
Print and Playing Card Museum
Grevenmacher, G.D. of Luxembourg
A research into Kulturhuef's past and present building history.
From slaughter house to playing card and printmaking museum.
Home to the Dieudonné collection of historical playing cards and of bygone typographical machinery and letterpress archives.
4 animals to illustrate a case...
Dieu donne - à volonté?
Artmix II 2006-2007
cultural exchange and residency
-6 artists;
Rog Molitor, Diane Jodes, Cordue, Joan Timmel, Manuela Osterburg, Igor Michajlow
-3 cities;
Luxembourg-Saarburg-Saarbrücken
-2 countries; Luxembourg-Germany
Ein Männlein...
A Facebook project, made into a book.
Find the complete book here
A photo diary of small, big, mysterious, spectacular, thrilling, bright, beautiful, mystifying, kitsch, ugly, trivial, cliché and sometimes not so interesting encounters during our daily doggy walk in the woods and in the world... For whatever or whoever it is good for.
October 11, 2010 - October 10, 2011
4 seasons
365 days
one photo a day...by Diane Jodes
brèves (re)trouvailles...
2017
Kremart presents
a book by Laurence Klopp
illustrated by Diane Jodes
