Het Laatste Avondmaal

In a post-modern way this project combines cinematic theatre, photography, art history, theology and computer technology in twelve photographs, depicting seven biblical scenes from the New Testament which are “enacted” by people with Down’s syndrome.

The restrainedly dramatic scenes are depicted with a sublime photographing technique; their chiaroscuro reminds us of paintings by Caravaggio and Georges de la Tour.

Four of the seven scenes have been staged as precisely as possible after famous paintings from the history of art. The largest work is a quintuple piece after the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, followed by the diptych with Jan van Eyck’s Annunciation as in his Ghent altarpiece, the Betrayal by Judas by the Italian early renaissance artist Giotto and a Ecce Homo by the 19th-century Russian painter Nicolaï Ge.