The Laundry (2011) Eddy Kaijser

This work by the Rotterdam artist Eddy Kaijser forms together with the work Girl on a chair a diptych by Marcel Niehoff. The girl looks up The Laundry, a still life of laundry in a room. We see pants hung inside out next to a yellow blouse, two T-shirts and a sock. Some clothes are also hanging over a few chairs. It is painted from an existing photo of a hotel room, but has the nonchalance of a laundry attic, a typical interior space. The two artists wanted to create the idea of ​​a house, so that the street becomes more homely. Life is less rushed indoors than on the street. This assignment was part of a large-scale overhaul of the Zwaanshals by housing corporation Havensteder. They asked CBK Rotterdam to provide the renovated ornamental frames with a work of art. In 2011, a total of seven new paintings were applied around the Zwaanshals and two well-known works were restored.