Please Take Nothing But Memory centres on a pigment migration technique, in which layers of varnish, dirt, and superficial pigment are chemically lifted from antique oil paintings and transferred onto textile. Developed in collaboration with restoration experts, this process yields faint imprints that are then mounted within various antique objects sourced from local auction houses, selected for the way they circulate within the auction house’s value system as seemingly discarded fragments of the past.

Installation view of Daan Couzijn’s solo booth at Art Brussels 2025, presented by PLUS-ONE Projects
The burning heart; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 19th century folding screen, Louis XV style, built from walnut; 124 × 184 cm
Hare; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century trumeau, Louis XIV-style, built from oak wood; 180 x 88 cm
Portrait Of A Young Boy With A White Frill; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, stretched in late 19th century fire screen, Louis XV-style, carved from oak wood; 108 x 58 cm
Still life with goose and game; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century double-doors, Louis XVI style, built from walnut; 170 x 100 cm
Please take nothing but memory; 2025; text hand-carved in 18th century Versailles parquet panel, Louis XIV-style, built from oak wood; 85 × 85 cm
Among the doctors; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 19th table screen, Louis XV style, built from oak wood; 48 x 85 cm
Various; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century staircase ornament, neoclassical style, built from oak wood; various sizes


Thinking of Holland explores the artificiality of cultural memory — and questions the authenticity of Dutch national identity — by revisiting the romanticised aesthetics of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch landscape and seascape painting. The series presents synthetic scenes drawn from art-historical imagery, transposed into the traditional medium of oil painting.

Exhibition view of group exhibition From Raster to Vector, RADIUS – Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2024

Various; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas;  35 x 45 cm
As it echoes the waves that yearn to return; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas;  35 x 45 cm
Various; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas;  35 x 45 cm
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