Keep your distance
but stay close

With the global COVID-19 pandemic many of us spent several weeks in and out of video conference calls. This situation sparked an idea, we asked the world’s best designers, illustrators, animators, photographers, filmmakers and artists to create a collection of virtual backdrops to use in video call apps.

Keep your distance but stay close
Keep your distance but stay close
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The backdrops added some much-needed creativity to video conferences whilst also raising awareness for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and promoting artists and their art.

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Keep your distance but stay close
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Home Office Escape By Martijn Lambada
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Daan Rietbergen

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Shoplifter & Frame

Blumenbild By Johanna Noack
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Scheltens & Abbenes

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Piet Oudolf

Many international institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the Serpentine Gallery Stedelijk Museum or Frame magazine did participate to the project. We also received works from David LaChapelle, Sabine Marcelis…

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Groovy Grainy Booties By NiCarpenter
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Visit gotyourback.space to download the backdrops and see all of the credits

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Territory, Charted

Making time count. Zuijderwijk / Vergouwe are a Dutch photographer couple who live nomadically with their three daughters – travelling the world and working on photography projects that document artistic interventions on landscapes. Their latest project Mapping is being showed at NewWerktheater and collected in a self-published book.

Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted

Shot primarily in the Isles of Mull and Iona (Scotland), the Mapping photographs depict large rock formations featuring a distinctive pattern of bright lines. These motifs, created entirely on location, are made by hand-drawing lines on the landscape with a laser pointer, and photographing the scenes at extremely low speed. The resulting images refer to the human urge to rationalize and understand our surroundings, as well as nodding to mankind’s relentless subjugation of nature.

Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
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Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted

Shot primarily in the Isles of Mull and Iona (Scotland), the Mapping photographs depict large rock formations featuring a distinctive pattern of bright lines. These motifs, created entirely on location, are made by hand-drawing lines on the landscape with a laser pointer, and photographing the scenes at extremely low speed. The resulting images refer to the human urge to rationalize and understand our surroundings, as well as nodding to mankind’s relentless subjugation of nature.

Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
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Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted

The edition, with a print run of 750, contains 100 special edition copies featuring an exclusive custom cover (where an abstract pattern of lines is silkscreened in laser green on black paper). These are presented in a corner-stapled cardboard box that also contains an Ultrachrome print of one of the artists’ works.

Territory, Charted
Territory, Charted
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  • Writing
  • Maartje van den Heuvel
  • Fiona Menzies
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