“When Eva Spierenburg's mother died, she developed a fascination for the dying body. Humility only exists when there is no longer any identity, no longer an ego. Dying can also be seen as a form of humility, a no-man's-land between presence and absence. A body will only die as the ego slowly ebbs away. Spierenburg's work represents this intermediate form, a state of being and non-being. A small red object of solidified transparent plastic material, for example, suggests the transformation of death. ‘’I imagined how all a body’s lifeblood sinks to the bottom and coagulates. This then, is coagulated life, I thought.’ Spierenburg also took photographs of wet clay, because what other ways exist for retaining this pliable soft form?” (catalogue text by Lieneke Hulshof)