“Virtual Fairground” is a light artwork by Femke Schaap presented at Amsterdam Light Festival 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Thanks to the increasing tourism and growing crowds, Amsterdam’s city centre can feel like an amusement park. Local residents are getting more and more annoyed and encouraging the municipality to do something about it.
About Femke Schaap
Femke Schaap (1972), who calls herself ‘a sculptor in light’, graduated as a visual artist from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, where she still works and lives. After graduating in...
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.