The Unfixed Line
Groupshow
11.09 - 26.09.2026
From 11 September to 26 September 2026, Ballon Rouge presents The Unfixed Line, a group exhibition bringing together the work of Vivian Ammerlaan, François Hendrickx, Anne Kære, Merel Klomp & Elmar Janse, Marlike Marks, Sanne Romeijn, and Dineke Versluis.
Water is never still. It shifts between forms, reflects its surroundings, carries traces of distant places, and constantly redraws the boundaries between land and sky. The Unfixed Line explores water as a force in motion, a space of connection, memory, and transformation.
Through photography and experimental processes, the artists in this exhibition approach water not only as a subject, but as a presence. Their works move between the visible and invisible, between vast landscapes and intimate experiences, revealing how water holds stories, emotions, and traces of time.
Those Moments in Between, 2025
© Sanne Romeijn
Tijdloze leegten 10, 2024
© Vivian Ammerlaan
Vivian Ammerlaan’s chemigrams exist between photography, painting, and experimentation. By working directly with photographic chemicals on light-sensitive paper, she creates images shaped by material, chance, and time. In Tijdloze leegten, organic forms evoke seas, misty horizons, and unknown landscapes, creating an abstract world between reality and imagination.
François Hendrickx approaches photography as a way of asking questions rather than providing answers. His work focuses on overlooked landscapes and places outside familiar routes of attention. In Krabbens Drøm, created with a pinhole camera, he explores imagined landscapes seen through the dreams of a crab living beneath the water’s surface.
Lillies, 2024
© Anne Kære
Anne Kære works with an intuitive and cinematic visual language, focusing on light, atmosphere, and detail. In Natures Symphonies, she translates the rhythms and textures of nature into quiet visual compositions. Inspired by the Japanese concept of yūgen, her work explores a beauty that is experienced rather than simply observed.
Merel Klomp and Elmar Janse explore the relationship between nature, inner states, and the human need for stillness. In The Glacier Project, they document the transformation of ice into water across European landscapes. Their photographs and films reflect on fragile environments and the constant movement of nature.
Marlike Marks’ practice explores how attention can transform our relationship with time and our surroundings. Through repeated actions and rituals, she returns to familiar places to discover how perception shifts through presence. Her work reveals a world that is continuously changing, even when it appears still.
Sanne Romeijn explores identity, intimacy, and the relationship between personal experiences and place. In the new chapter of Those Moments in Between, she photographs herself and her partner within the landscape of their new home, where water has become part of everyday life. The work reflects on change, recovery, and the transformation of a shared life.
Swell 2, 2020
© Dineke Versluis
Dineke Versluis moves between documentary photography and studio practice, transforming observations into poetic visual narratives. In Swell, she reflects on the movement of waves and the invisible energy travelling through water. The work connects distant places and moments through the shared rhythm of the sea.
Together, the works in The Unfixed Line explore water as something that cannot be fixed or fully contained. Like photography itself, it captures traces of a moment while remaining open to change.
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Curated by Marlike Marks
Cover image © Merel Klomp and Elmar Janse