Listen: KEBAYA
(about the white installation in front of you)
Listen: HENRI
(about the blueprints in the installation)
Welcome to the online companion page for A Blueprint of You at Zomerlicht Festival 2026. Here you can learn more about the installation, listen to the accompanying audio fragments, explore the story behind the work, and discover the family histories, research, and memories that shaped its creation.
A Blueprint of You
At the heart of this installation lies a question: what do we inherit from those who came before us?
A Blueprint of You is an ongoing artistic research project exploring family archives, migration, loss, memory, and the traces that continue to shape us across generations. Through cyanotype, textile, sound, and archival materials, the work investigates how personal histories become part of our collective identity.
Created by visual artist Eva Margaretha, the installation weaves together stories from her own family history in the former Dutch East Indies, connecting intimate memories to larger narratives of displacement, colonial history, and transgenerational inheritance.
For Zomerlicht Festival 2026, this research takes the form of a monumental walk-in structure inspired by a kebaya, a garment traditionally worn by women across Indonesia. Visitors are invited to step inside, surrounded by blueprints, voices, and fragments of memory. Listen to the stories. Stand within them. Become part of the archive.
The audio fragment below accompanies the white kebaya in the field. It is narrated in Dutch by Eva and forms part of the installation experience.
Henri
On Christmas Day, 1901, my great grandfather, Henri François Ernest Rozenberg was born in Surabaya, then part of the Dutch East Indies. Forty-three years later, he disappeared during one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the Second World War: the sinking of the Junyo Maru. Like thousands of others aboard the ship, he never returned home.
For decades, Henri existed in our family only as fragments: a photograph, a name, a silence.
This installation is part of a search for the people hidden within family archives and the stories that continue to echo long after a life has ended. Through sound, image, and textile, Henri’s story becomes a way to reflect on absence, remembrance, and the lives that continue to shape us even when they can no longer be seen.
What remains when someone disappears?
Perhaps the traces they leave behind.
This fragment shares the story of Henri, a father who never came home. His life and disappearance form an important thread within the installation.
Visit the Installation
A Blueprint of You can be experienced during Zomerlicht Festival 2026 at Landgoed Calorama in Noordwijk.
Step inside a monumental textile structure suspended between the trees. Listen to archival voices, personal stories, and reflections on memory, migration, family, and belonging.
The installation is designed as a place of encounter: a space to pause, listen, and consider the invisible threads connecting past and present.
Location: Landgoed Calorama, Noordwijk
Festival: Zomerlicht Festival 2026
Artist: Eva Margaretha
We invite you to enter, listen, and experience the work for yourself.
Design and construction of the timber support structure: Richard van Triest | Karakter bouwadvies | info@karakterbouwadvies.nl
Soundscape of A Blueprint of You
The installation is accompanied by a soundscape composed of recordings made in Indonesia, a poem by Roos Miedema, and the singing voice of Lola Miedema.
Visitors encountering the work are invited to experience these layered voices and sounds as part of a reflection on memory, inheritance, and belonging.
The complete audio fragment can be listened to again here.
Previous Exhibitions
A Blueprint of You is an ongoing artistic research project that has evolved through a series of exhibitions, installations, and studio presentations.
The project was first presented at the artist’s studio in Vogelenzang, where early cyanotype works, family archive research, and portraits explored themes of identity, memory, and transgenerational inheritance.
In 2025, selections from the series were exhibited at Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam as part of a broader exploration of family history, migration, and personal archives. The work invited visitors to reflect on how stories travel across generations and continue to shape our understanding of home and belonging.
In 2026, the project expanded significantly during the solo exhibition The Power of Transgenerational Transmission – nenek, ibu, anak, cucu at Galerie Wind in Rotterdam. Through large-scale portraits, cyanotypes, textiles, and archival research, the exhibition connected personal family histories from the former Dutch East Indies to wider questions of colonial history, memory, and identity.
For Zomerlicht Festival 2026, A Blueprint of You takes on its most monumental form to date: a walk-in installation suspended between the trees, combining textile, sound, archival storytelling, and light into an immersive experience.
Collecting a blueprint of you
A selection of works from the ongoing series A Blueprint of You is available for acquisition. The series includes cyanotypes, works on paper, textiles and larger mixed-media pieces, ranging in scale and price.
Many of these works are currently on view at my studio in Vogelenzang. If you are interested in collecting a piece from the series, I warmly invite you to visit the studio and discover which works are currently available. During your visit, I am happy to share the stories, family histories and research that form the foundation of this evolving body of work.
Studio Visits
For those wishing to explore more of Eva Margaretha’s work, studio visits are available by appointment. Discover the ongoing development of A Blueprint of You and other works rooted in family archives, memory, and transgenerational inheritance.
Oohm | Bekslaan 22 Vogelenzang
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