Rutte

Portrait of Mark Rutte, embroidered buttons on black velvet, including woven glass beads. 100x148cm. 2023.

Full title: Mark Rutte verlaat de Tweede Kamer na de val van zijn laatste kabinet (Mark Rutte departs the House of Representatives after the downfall of his last Cabinet of The Netherlands).

The full title also explains the entire content of this work. After his political party VVD purposely escalated a political crisis, the Cabinet of The Netherlands fell. This work is a sequel, it is linked to the giant tapestry Ter Apel.

The buttons represent us as people, as individuals who might look alike but are all unique in our own ways.

The piece is made out of hundreds of embroidered buttons. All buttons are donated and secondhand.

Special thanks goes to ANP Foto/Remko de Waal.