The entire collection currently consists of 40 objects. When placing a combination, Wies plays with the specific possibilities of sight and walking lines at the location: the appearing and disappearing of shapes; how the small becomes large; the distance comes closer, is around you and the enclosed opens up. Outside, the wind plays with the objects, as does the light of the sun, the dusk, the darkness of the night, and when the lights come on.

With BeingHere, Wies creates her own 'home', wherever that may be, while she is always on the move driven by an endless curiosity for surprising possibilities in the play with shape changes. Time and again, she is somewhere, in the moment, for a brief instance of the timeless. But always in combination with the inevitable: leaving and being left behind.

About Wies Noest
Wies Noest is a visual artist, although that term doesn’t mean much to her personally. After she – in her own words – 'failed as a real craft teacher', she started making art in the 1970s. To make herself happy, to wonder, to be surprised by what she encounters along the way. She never works according to a plan; she starts with something and plays until she falls in love with the result; that’s when it’s done. And if later a creation suddenly doesn’t seem good enough, she will take scissors to it and literally lay everything open to let something new emerge.

Wies Noest's work consists of long-term projects (she prefers to speak about processes) in which she builds a collection with continually new elements. Those collections consist of textile creations that are placed in various installations in public spaces or used in theatrical settings.

“The nice thing about being almost eighty is that I can look back at my work and discover lines in it. The events in my life, they are all there, while I had no idea at the moment I created it. Only afterwards do I see the connections and receive extraordinary answers. It is my journey, my life.”

The art program of Into The Great Wide Open is made possible with support from the Creative Industry Fund, Mondriaan Fund, and De Versterking.