“A simultaneous love for simplicity and detail, highlighting the seemingly ordinary......with much humour......Drabbe chooses to show tenderness....”
NRC/Volkskrant
Jennifer Drabbe (Amsterdam, 1969) is a left-handed red-head, but also a visual artist and former theatre director. Most recently she self-published two remarkably personal books. With a laser focus on small, intimate and daily details she closely observes her direct family and their tender and playful behaviour. This endeavor gives the answer to a fundamental question: what is it that makes us so human?
Her first book delves into a personal experience at home. When Drabbe went to a British boarding school as a young girl she was exposed to a rather composed and codified lifestyle. As a mother in The Netherlands, she was struck by the spontaneous uninhibited behavior her daughters displayed in the safety of a family home. This huge difference became the inspiration for today is my new favourite day (2021). This photobook shows her love for a warm and carefree lifestyle. Pure and without constraints.
Her second book, Everything here is fine only I fell out of a tree the first hour I was here and I also cut my thumb (2025) explores the opposite path: what is it that we share? With this book Drabbe dives into her history and draws on handwritten letters by six generations of women in her family, paired with archival images. Drabbe dissects these sources like a surgeon, and by zooming in to the core, finds striking similarities across generations: this longing for connection and intimacy is universal and of all times.
Both books are part of the Rijksmuseum’s library collection in Amsterdam. Drabbe’s work has been featured at Art Basel (Miami Beach, 2018), the Affordable Art Fair (New York, 2019), and exhibited in various Amsterdam venues, including NDSM-Fuse, Amsterdam Museum and Museum Amsterdam North. Her work is also included in the monumental photo book Pools (Rizzoli), curated by Lou Stoppard.
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