Willem De Rooij

Willem De Rooij engages with recent and historical nationalism and populism in the Netherlands to address broader transnational issues.He has created several projects involving the display of paintings by seventeenth-century Dutch artists, some of whom were part of the development of the genre known as the hunting still life. De Rooij's installations show how these artists combined notions of exoticism with nationalism in order to promote the Dutch Empire. It is thus through different media that De Rooij explores the production, contextualisation and interpretation of images, and questions visual and conceptual representations of power.