A walk with her father on the High Line in New York inspired Anouk Griffioen to investigate the vision of garden designer Piet Oudolf. Just as the High Line is planted with a sophisticated seed mixture, Oudolf has designed gardens in such a way that nature, or more particularly the feeling of nature, is reflected in the built environment. This can be seen in the gardens of the Singer Museum in Laren, among other things, which prompted Griffioen to come up with this plan: an exhibition in the museum as an ode to Oudolf. The focus was on an installation to be developed, in collaboration with a 3D video mapper and radio program Opium. A draftsman himself, Griffioen is used to creating imaginary worlds in which nature plays a leading role. For the museum she wanted to pay tribute to Oudolf through large drawings that form a backdrop for video mapping. She wanted to make images of immense foliage move by means of sensors to music that she would edit together with Opium. “The drawings come to life, the visitor is invited to move freely and then get lost in the work.”

Griffioen describes her often monumental charcoal drawings as taking place in a parallel universe. “A search for the unusual, or rather the ordinary, without knowing in advance where I am going and what will come out of it.” She is affiliated with Het Wilde Weten and exhibits in Paris, Zurich and museums at home and abroad. In her solo exhibition at TENT in 2016, she showed her first experiments with moving images and video mapping. The R&D committee foresaw that this exhibition in Laren would mean a deepening of that combination of drawing and digital techniques.