The work Daalderregen originates from the installation 'Stof in Rolzaal'. In June 2007 the price giving ceremony of the Prix the Rome took place in the Rolzaal at the Binnenhof, the political centre of the Netherlands. Kraal was asked to make a work on location for the event. The Rolzaal belongs to oldest part of the Binnenhof in The Hague. In the thirteenth century count Willem II built his palace at the Binnenhof and the Rolzaal formed the centre of the building. Doina casually left piles of old guilders, sculpted with magnets, in several corners of the Rolzaal as if it was dust. The Dutch bank permitted her to work once again with the old coins for the video Daalderregen that was made for the Virtual Museum at the Amsterdam Zuidas. The Zuidas seems to resemble more and more what the City is to London, a financial district or in any case a business district. In Daalderregen the viewer is confronted with an inexhaustible rain of Rijksdaalders (old Dutch coins). The work has been inspired by the fairy tale Sterrendaalders in which shooting stars transform into golden coins thus saving a solitary and poor little girl.
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