The Hague IV

Edwin Zwakman
The Hague IV, 2021
Inkjet on diasec
60 x 132 cm

About the works

The Hague IV is a photograph of a maquette by Edwin Zwakman and it is the basis of his new project ‘At Night I See the Future’. In this project Zwakman sheds a light on how he sees the future. It is a part of his long-term research in which he visualises his idea of this future with analogue and digital models. For this project he made a maquette, photographs, drawings and a film.

The project, and this work, is about the questions: what will we see when we look out of our window in 2084? Or: how do we feel when we are forced to leave our natural environment even further behind us? How drastically will the ecological and social challenges lead to upheavals and changes? What are the consequences of the increasing rise of the sea level?

He is fascinated with banality of everyday life and wants to let us see how he thinks these aspects of life will change. When the sea level rises, how does one relocate as many people as possible?  And how will they live? In this project he creates a “forward memory” in which he envisages a catamaran-container housing construction that floats on the North Sea.