Nele Tas decided to enlarge one of the formal hedge studies for the showcase window project. It was called ‘Haag’ and took place at Salon 2060 in Antwerp, in 2014. She revisited the idea in 2016 for Theater Zuidpool’s RECUP festival:
“Recuperated. This time for Theater Zuidpool. Nele Tas reprises the work ‘haag’ for a second time. An inordinately large oil painting rests on the ground and charges the basement of the building with a single image: a hedge. An artificial green hedge, detached within an empty landscape, its function as ‘doorkeeper’ lost. The intention is to make the large work appear as small (or as monumental) as the original – right down to the brushwork and undesired splatters. Thus, this hedge fits ‘on demand’ into any space. Scale-free and site-specific at the same time.”
The difference between the original and enlarged work is barely noticeable in photographs. For the exhibitions Buiten-Land, at De Bijl in Zoersel (2018), and Ceci n’est pas un paysage, at Praetoria (2017) in Berchem, different hedge forms were enlarged on each occasion.
