DIE ZEIT
DIE ZEIT
DIE ZEIT
DIE ZEIT
2024
Minor Mishap.
Illustration for the German newspaper DIE ZEIT. It’s part of a holiday-related quiz called Urlaubs-Quiz that illustrates someone’s vacation turning into a complete disaster.
Wessel Baarda’s (B. 1989, NL) work features depictions of everyday life in strange, jarring settings. A body of work where the most ordinary situations are portrayed from an overwhelming and personal point of view, a narrative that finds its strength in the banality of life itself. It is a way of critically interrogating everyday life in our visual culture by drawing the line between reality and fantasy, commerce, and autonomy through depictions of (unsettling) visual scenes. The work contemplates our contemporary reality, in which the limits between real life and fiction are as close to disappearing as ever. Creating narratives that highlight the absurdity of mundane settings amplifying the strange times we live in.
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DIE ZEIT
DIE ZEIT
2024
Minor Mishap.
Illustration for the German newspaper DIE ZEIT. It’s part of a holiday-related quiz called Urlaubs-Quiz that illustrates someone’s vacation turning into a complete disaster.
ZEIT Campus
ZEIT Campus
2024
Image for ZEIT Campus to accompany a short story in the published magazine.
English translation of the story:
I had studied for weeks for the Finance 1 exam and knew that if I didn’t pass, at the end of my third semester in Economics, I would have too few ECTS credits and would have to end my studies.
On the day of the test, I was distracted and made many mistakes. In the end, I failed – because I was 0.5 points short. I panicked. But luckily, in my program, the students grade the exams, and I knew the grader casually because he used to be my neighbor.
I asked him if he could take another look at my exam. He asked me to list the tasks where I believed I deserved more points. He wanted to check them again.
For two days, I heard nothing. I was nervous and constantly checked the university portal. Then my grade was changed, and lo and behold: I had passed. “Lina*, 23, now grades exams herself.”
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