Justin Wijers

       
   

Justin Wijers (1981) draws victims of violence and traffic accidents he finds on the Internet. With a fine jellyroller pen he depicts the battered bodies in thin, precise lines. The bodies are only partly coloured in and their contours are very lightly sketched on the white surface of the paper, at first sight they look like abstract areas of colour or islands on a map in a white sea.

On the body and in the stains around it Justin Wijers has written texts and drawn flowers, plants, animals and pictograms in bright colours, which almost make a psychedelic impression. With much feeling and thought for detail, he fills in the bodies, as a tender last homage. The observer first loses himself in the beautiful colours and the many details, until the total form of the body emerges. In this way Justin Wijers confronts us with the raw reality we are faced with in the media every day, but from which we normally seclude ourselves