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  • Big Dipper * Film *  (1)
  • Big Dipper  (5)

    * Made by Big Dipper * Big Dipper dips twenty-four chandeliers using the technique of candle making. The machine rotates and lowers strung wick chandeliers periodically, building up 12 layers for each. After twelve hours, twenty-four chandeliers are completed and a new cycle can begin. © Sarah van Gameren 2007

  • Burn Burn Burn * Film *  (1)
  • Burn Burn Burn  (3)

    Burn Burn Burn - before / after Burn Burn Burn is the documentation of a performance with a special kind of paint; a flammable paint similar to the colored tip on the end of a matchstick. When applied, dried and lit, the flame slowly moves forward. It moves over the floor, table legs and chairs where it leaves behind a pitch-black trace, a picture frame burned into the wall and charcoal roses. This paint is invented in the kitchen and developed further with the help of a chemist. It has a substance like silk-screen paint and is dye-able in every colour. The paint will permanently mark wood and leave an impermanent black trace on stone surfaces. It can either burn or sparkle and the substance can be applied in different colors with a brush a syringe or a silkscreen. © Sarah van Gameren 2007

  • Light #1  (2)

    © Sarah van Gameren 2007

  • Chain Reaction * Film *  (1)
  • Chain Reaction  (5)

    Together with Rowan Mersh I worked on a 12 hours burning match-stick chain reaction. A flame passes on from matchstick to matchstick and slowly travels through space and time. © Sarah van Gameren and Rowan Mersh 2006

  • Tristan & Isolde  (3)

    Tristan & Isolde test #1 Tristan & Isolde This is about love. Slowly they breathe. In and out. They follow each others’ rhythm. What he breathes out becomes her breath and what she breathes out is his. The tube turns opaque, their vision fades and when time passes they become more and more the other. © Sarah van Gameren 2005 Tristan & Isolde without straps

  • Kate & Pete  (1)

    Kate & Pete This breakable cocaine pipe is named ‘Kate & Pete’. The hole in the inside of the pipe morphs from ‘Kate’ to ‘Pete’. If you break the pipe in two pieces you will find a heart in the middle. When I just moved to the UK and started my study at the Royal College of Art, this was our first project. My first week in London was during ‘Fashion Week’. To my surprise the English press kept the same faces on every front page for weeks and weeks. I visited a few fashion-parties and was amazed by the thick clouds of white powder hanging in the air. This project is a result of my slightly twisted first impression and the similarity between cocaine and the powdery nylon-material most Rapid Prototype products are created from. © Sarah van Gameren 2005

  • Kloonkoffer / Clonecase * Film *  (1)
  • Kloonkoffer / Clonecase  (2)

    Kloonkoffer / Clonecase De kloonkoffer is een apparaat, vermomd als een koffertje. Met alleen deze koffer en een stofzuiger kun je vacuümvormen in een huis- tuin- en keukensituatie. The clonecase is a tool in a suitcase. You only need this case and a hoover to thermoform at home. © Sarah van Gameren 2004 Kloonkoffer / Clonecase the inside

  • Family Tree Jewelry  (2)

    Family Tree Jewelry In the beginning there was my own family tree. My mother gave me one part of it. For years the scraps of paper had been pressed between the pages of an old photograph album. The other part I received from my grandparents. With the help of some old documents and photographs they tried to recall the names of their nephews and nieces, uncles and aunts. I wondered if my genealogical research would solve some mysteries. Is the nature of my being a result of the various branches of my family tree that ultimately come together in my own being? Is the source of our potential in life hidden behind the leaves of this tree? Can my tree tell me how far my talent reaches? After I completed my own family tree, I stitched all the names of my ancestors on a handkerchief, blew my nose, and that was that. Then there is Runa, 17 years old. A beautiful and smart girl with many talents. She gave me her genealogical tree to research and in return I made her a necklace. The collier is inspired on the ‘name-jewel’ that girls of her age tend to wear. The piece of jewelry I made for her has every single name of her family members. From her ancestors on her breast to her close family embracing her neck. She wears the collier like a genetic palette. © Sarah van Gameren 2004 Family Tree Jewelry close up

  • Girls Spurs  (2)

    This is for the one who stole my Foxy Brown CD and all the other sexy plexi girls in town who wear them cowboy boots with little tiny skirties, make their way through the big dirty city with all its danger and thrill and still manage to keep their lovely lashes low! This morning I left my house and went straight to the tube. I had a mantra in my head. I’m a cowboy .. I’m really a cowboy, but I’m trapped in female skin. When I was stacked between flesh compressed in office suits, open armpits as clocks, umbrellas above my head. They sang sexy female you sexy, sexy female. But I’m a cowboy. I’m a cowboy. And it’s just not fair.. © Sarah van Gameren

  • Shadow Hanger  (1)

    Coathanger for Sietzes house in Antwerp. © Sarah van Gameren 2004