WHIRLWIND

Whirlwind
animation
15.03
6 channel LED screen installation
Centraal Museum Utrecht Utrecht
NL 03.07.24—01.03.25

Kruithof is interested in how we deal with the continuous flow of images online and on social media. For Whirlwind, she drew inspiration from images of the museum’s collection she found on- line. She used the corresponding titles and web- site texts as so-called prompts to generate GIFs (small animations) via Instagram. Each animation is different, depending on the GIF chosen. They vary in quality (from pixelated to sharp), style (2D, 3D, based on photos or drawings etc.) and subject (alien, fruit, emoji, diamond, abstract shape etc.). The result consists of 118 short visu- al stories that are constantly moving and mutat- ing. Kruithof thus literally and figuratively brings out Centraal Museum’s collection – displayed be- hind these walls.