It would show a small part of the neighbourhood that is often overlooked. Literal and figurative wallflowers: cheerful appearances in dry, stony surroundings. At the same time, it would cast a glance at the collector and his or her interests. After all, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

Artists are collectors par excellence: of materials, ideas and stories. Four artists have been invited for the Herbarium exhibition who are interested in the different layers of an environment. For one, this is expressed in the more tangible: in the ground beneath our feet and the greenery with which residents share their domain. For the other, it is more in the spiritual: in the stories in the neighbourhood, the memories and dreams that lie there and in the gods that are worshipped there. The artists have recently gone into the neighbourhood and have taken elements with them to the Plaatsmaken workshops. Tablecloths were blueprinted, stone houses were built in the darkroom, gods were drawn and fabrics were filled with fragments of stories. Here, physical crafts and layers from the neighbourhood found each other in new work.

The result is just like the neighbourhood: multi-coloured, lively, polyphonic, with colourful appearances and here and there a quiet corner and clearly enough space to sit down and watch who and what passes by. Local residents may recognise familiar details from their neighbourhood or discover something special. In turn, people who know Plaatsmaken may walk through their own neighbourhood in a slightly different way. Because that is ultimately what an herbarium is: that piece from the viewer's perspective. An eye for a specific thing that you may have previously passed by. So that the familiar becomes new again, and the new is finally known.

Fiona Lutjenhuis tells stories in which she mixes truth, fantasy and reality in colourful images. In Klarendal, she went in search of religious symbols in windowsills and shop windows, which she then took with her to the Plaatsmaken workshops. They cover the table, where you are invited to take a seat.

Jan Rothuizen travels through cities, streets and houses and talks to people, observes and tries to merge all the found elements into one image that tells a larger story. He made a drawing of Klarendal and experiments with a new medium for him: etchings. These will not be a literal translation, but reflect his feeling in the neighbourhood.

Lou-Lou van Staaveren takes photos, gardens and does research into physical gardens, gardens in the visual arts and gardens of the imagination. She made and developed analogue photos of the neighbourhood. She then built up the images colour by colour with silkscreen printing and cyanotype. In this way she makes tangible how green does infinitely more for us than is visible at first glance.

Neil Fortune makes paintings, drawings and sculptures in which he connects people with each other. He spoke to people from the neighbourhood and invited them to draw during their conversation. The drawings form the basis for new works, in which he combines various techniques with textiles, which he partly filled with material from an old sofa from Klarendal. His works are thus the carrier of previous, and hopefully entice new, conversations.

Curator: Gerda van de Glind