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Text by Christine Minas
Art Gallery O-68 is proud to present the work of New York-based Dutch artist Wieteke Heldens. This
presentation includes paintings from two ongoing and related bodies of work: Legends and the
more recent Still Counting.
In the two Legends paintings in this presentation, viewers can see dots, scribbles and other
marks made with different colors and media on an apparently raw and empty canvas. These
features reflect their remarkable origin story. In her early thirties, Heldens unexpectedly found
herself in a hospital’s ICU unit. While lying there in critical care, she looked …