Aangeharkt’ was a graduation show installation by KIEM at the exhibition of Planetary Poetics 11-14 of June 2025 at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.

Three glass prints of cut tree trunks hang or stand in the midst of seemingly more daily objects, a clothes rack, a plant pot, a building’s design. They are held by the municipality chainsaw chains that cut them down. The materials that have replaced them now carefully hold them as they seemingly float in the air. An eerie reflection of one of the prints slowly turns on the wall. It is unclear how this ‘ghost’ can move, as the light source is undetectable, and the glass piece doesn’t move, where its shadow does. Two seats provide a resting place for headphones through which audio is playing. The tops are fragile ceramic prints of yet another two cut tree trunks that break and fall apart during the exhibition. The audio speaks of the barriers that continue to enclose citizen agency over common(s’) green spaces, and the individual histories of these trees, connecting colonialism and capitalism to localities of bureaucracy and gentrification processes.

Materials: wood, steel, glass, pigment, clay, wool, alder trees