RESPONDS QUICKLY, FRIENDLY by Marens van Leunen

Responds Quickly, Friendly 
Marens van Leunen 
Void 

16,8 x 23,8 cm
64 pages
500 copies
Softcover with French folds
ISBN 978-618-5479-48-0

Marens van Leunen’s debut book ‘Responds Quickly, Friendly’ explores the significance of our everyday objects and domestic environments, through playfully observed and staged images made in the space of her father’s home.

‘Responds Quickly, Friendly’ began in late 2022, when van Leunen’s father’s apartment in Amsterdam, which he had rented for thirty years, was sold to a new owner. Facing transition and change within their lived environment and a resulting urgency to inventory her father’s belongings, van Leunen began capturing and preserving these objects alongside the interiors of her childhood home. What emerges are carefully constructed and staged installations of his personal artifacts: from piles of chairs and paperback books; stacks of coffee mugs and Moka Pots; and tangles of hoovers and wired headphones.