Longing for Harbour

Boekhandel Blankevoort – Bookstore

Saturday, April 25 2006 4:00 PM
Vernissage / Opening / Book Launch
ORNA WERTMAN
LONGING FOR HARBOUR

This exhibition centers on photographs from her new book Longing for Harbour.

25 April 2026 – 24 Augustus 2026

Blankevoort Bookstore, Amstelveen

‘Every journey begins with leaving home, taking the first step. There is no history yet, but it forms inevitably, unmistakably, with each step that follows. This is how Orna Wertman travels. She moves through the world not innocently, not without history. How could anyone do so?

…From history, from event, the work breaks away in order to reveal meaning – and to take the step back home, still longing for harbour…’

‘Home’ , ‘Not Home’ , ‘Abandoned/Broken House’ or ‘Being Somewhere’ – these themes run like a common thread through the work of visual artist and master of montage Orna Wertman.
Special attention is paid to Wertman’s version of the book ‘House‘. In 2021 she found a book by the internationally known conceptual artist Les Levine in the library of Constant Nieuwenhuys. The book was published in Amsterdam in 1971. 50 years later, she has taken up Les Levine’s call to add a follow-up work of art. The result is a unique collage book,a new work of art.