Just looking at one of Jeroen Jongeleen's works from the Running in Circles series gives you an enormous sense of freedom. A freedom that Jongeleen claims, conquering the landscape, as it were, and as a viewer you feel this more and more as the series progresses. But it turns out to be a deceptive freedom. Jongeleen runs through the history of the landscapes of Northern Europe in endless and compelling circles. He runs seemingly effortlessly through the craters left in the landscape by grenades, over old fortifications and past memorials from World War I.
In his video, Jongeleen connects temporality and transience with timelessness and endlessness.
Jeroen Jongeleen (Apeldoorn, 1967) works in Rotterdam.
