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This image was taken on the occasion of the contemporary art festival 'Facade', held in 2017 (July, 14th till November, 5th) in Middelburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands.
If you check-out this link you'll see a map. The depicted contemporary artwork is # 15.
Further details (provided by the festival-organization):
The Dutch artist Folkert de Jong (Egmond aan Zee, 1972) shows people in a double form. Man is an actor in the play that Folkert carefully directs; colorful, niggering and sometimes triumphant. And at the same time, he also reveals the miserable, vulnerable side. If there's something his polyurethane statues make clear, it's that everything has another side to it. That is also the case for the portraits of the three Middelburg clergymen, that he's installed in the shade of the Oostkerk (East Church). In that religious environment, these statues can be interpreted as a dilemma; is religion merely an enriching inspiration or can it also be depressing and worrying?
PS: referring to the middle part of the narrative of this one, I hope to be back soon!
OFT
Well spotted and captured