INDONESIA (2005)
Wijnanda Deroo usually photographs interiors. She finds them everywhere: in hotels, mobile homes, synagogues and cafes. She records these places in a specific manner: intelligibly and in detail, but without people. Yet the images provide lots of information about the users. The design, colors and wear suggest a function, age and history. Because of the absence of people, these traces of life provoke an air of mystery, sometimes even menace. This comes through all the more clearly in the interiors that Deroo photographed on Sumatra, Java and Bali, places that have been associated with mystical forces for ages. The architecture in INDONESIA (2005) shows traces of Dutch colonialism, but likewise is redolent of Indonesian culture.
