You can make complete interiors from all the furniture that is put in the bulk waste in one evening. Photographer Boris Suyderhoud wants to show this with his exhibition, which opened this weekend. He roamed all over Amsterdam to collect the discarded items and then turned them into various ‘interiors’.
Suyderhoud chose one evening on which bulky waste may be taken out: “Then I drove around with a van and collected everything,” says the photographer, who then set up a living room – just on the street – in ten different neighborhoods in Amsterdam. .
The photos he took of it show what Suyderhoud has put together: from a cozy sitting area in the Staatsliedenbuurt to a stately dining room along a crossroads in Bos en Lommer. Suyderhoud was surprised how much he could find among the bulky waste. “And so much is in good condition. That actually shows what value people see in stuff. It’s easy to throw something away and buy something new.”
Plop down on the couch
Also on the site itself is a living room furnished by Suyderhoud. When he mentions it, two visitors have just plopped down on the couch. “It was also a bit with the thought that people would start using it; that it would take on a life of its own. That’s going well, it seems.”
Suyderhoud’s exhibition, which is called In/Out, can be seen until 1 October.