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, will
be on show at Foam from 10 February 2012. 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 van der Poel
family, who took him to the Greek island of Lefkas with them.
NRC Handelsblad covered the story.
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Foam x Grunberg contest
Arnon Grunberg is always
interested in new journalistic projects. Have you got an idea for
an interesting project for him (whether embedded or not)? Send a
photo, a short description and your contact details to pr[at]foam.org.
The contributor with the most fascinating project will be given
the chance to take pictures that will be published in Grunberg's
report in NRC Handelsblad.
The competition closes on
18 March and you can join in on Twitter using #FoamxGrunberg.