In the visual arts, the material used is always more than an effective construction. The images of Ellen Klijzing show that she uses the material in a delusional way. It expresses something different than what it actually is. As a sculpture, the material acquires properties that it does not have as such.
In 'Mondrian at war' she creates a visual naval battle using a formal language that we know from the figurehead of Dutch abstraction, Mondrian. It gives the impression of an upside-down ship, a capsized vessel with the hull in the air and the sails in the water. It is not a traditional seascape, but a futuristic-looking scene of a (space) war.
The Dutch landscape of horizontals and verticals has been pulled apart and reconnected. We see beds that cannot be slept on and iron pillows; a metaphor for a disoriented world. We have ended up in a nightmare. The different parts are connected in the way that Gerrit Rietveld used in his furniture, which looks fragile yet is sturdy.
Mondrian at War