Secret Encounters, photography by Frans van Heiningen (May 2001)

Looking for the perfect place… could very well be Frans van Heiningen’s motto, his photographic guideline. But the purpose of his quest is always elegantly obscured. The temporarily deserted places in his photographs look like convoluted layerings of recollections. What actions have exhausted their energy there, what destinies have taken a sharp turn in those surroundings? We will perhaps never know, but all those spaces share the unique quality of welcoming our projected selves, of bringing forth our memories and dreams.