Park Pardon - Schijngelaten No. 281

Artist: Park Pardon
 

Park Pardon is the collaborative work of Bloeme van Bon (b. 1989) and Geran Knol (b. 1991), based in Antwerp, Belgium. Both grew up on the countryside of the Netherlands, in a small village of a province called Friesland. In addition to their joint work, both Bloeme and Geran maintain individual practices.

The duo began Park Pardon as a graduation project in 2012, a collaborative project that sees their individual styles come together to form a new narrative. A year later both moved to Belgium where they received a MA Degree on Arts at St. Lucas.

Their most recent project together, Schijngelaten, is a series of one-of-a-kind papier-mâché masks. Each mask is hand-formed using papier-mâché techniques and hand painted with a playful face. The possible variations of Schijngelaten masks are so vast that no two are ever alike.