Hilde Van Gelder

Famous Angels Never, 2024-2025


This work is a sequence of four photograms exposed and developed at the Kromme Hoek in Nieuwpoort, Belgium. The blueprints were produced by placing wildflowers - gleaned in the area (mostly in roadsides) - on hand-cut pieces of Arches Platine paper. Each sheet has been mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. Nr. 2 I have additionally toned with an emulsion of sea rocket (Cakile maritima). These plants I gathered on the beach right in front of the former Atlantikwall bunker WN Waldersee, witnessing WWII war crimes. 

The prints are framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm.





Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never (1), 2024-2025. Cyanotype mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. View of the unframed print, front side. © Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never (1), 2024-2025. Cyanotype mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. View of the unframed print, back side. © Hilde Van Gelder






Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never (2), 2024-2025. Cyanotype mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. © Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never (3), 2024-2025. Toned cyanotype mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. © Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never (4), 2024-2025. Cyanotype mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. © Hilde Van Gelder






Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never, 2024-2025. Four cyanotypes mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. (installation views at KEI, Coxyde, 2025).  Photo: by Jonas Reubens © Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never, 2024-2025. Four cyanotypes mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. (installation views at KEI, Coxyde, 2025).  Photo: by Jonas Reubens © Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder, Famous Angels Never, 2024-2025. Four cyanotypes mounted on Moorman white paper 1200gr. and framed in oak, painted in transparent middle gray. Prints: 58 x 39 cm. Framed: 64 x 45 cm. (installation views at KEI, Coxyde, 2025).  Photo: by Jonas Reubens © Hilde Van Gelder