BLOK is a site-specific installation and spatial intervention by Johan in Hout and Matt Plezier. Inspired by the story of H.W. Blok (1910-1995), a bookseller, publisher and resistance fighter from Charlois, Rotterdam. He survived Dachau by putting his dream of his new bookshop on a checkered paper with blue pencil. With this installation, Johan in Hout and Matt Plezier not only put the book at its center, ‘I don’t trade in books, but in kilos of knowledge’ said H.W. Blok, but also imagination as an essential part of life and even survival. This in times where the book and art are increasingly under threat.

A space for books a growing book case.
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Work: Installation in wood
Subject: Resistance, Books
Date: June - 2024
Location: de Sportschool, Rotterdam

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Johan In Hout > buro in hout