Arnon Grunberg | Les vacances de Monsieur Grunberg
10 February - 18 March 2012

Summer holidays and photos are inextricably linked: the first thing that people pack, after their passport, tickets and money, is their camera. Les vacances de Monsieur Grunberg, a project by novelist Arnon Grunberg and visual artist Wendela Hubrecht, is now on show at. Les vacances is a sequel to Grunberg’s ‘embedment’ with various families from the Leidsche Rijn suburb in Utrecht. ‘Embedded’ here means staying with a family and participating in their daily activities. Grunberg wanted to more extensively investigate the phenomenon of the family by taking a holiday with them: ‘A family on a holiday is a family in a warzone – or to be more concise – in a state of war. That’s how I see it.’ It started in 2010 with a notice in the newspapers. Following a two-day audition with thirty families at the Holiday Inn in Amsterdam, Grunberg chose the Maud and Nick’s family, who took him to the Greek island of Lefkas with them.

More info: http://foam.org/press/2012/arnon-grunberg