#12 Stigma by Design
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Random artworks and photographs relating to a life in the youth care system and foster care placed together. Including 13 additional photographs that ground the artwork in reality.
In "Stigma by design" photographs and artwork is placed together, as a visual story about an unseen reality and finally our choice: love over fear.
© Jimmy Groen
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Deported from home:
Blueprint in the baby ward
(Photography from print copy from Helper Haven, Groningen 1964-1965)
My home III (1965)
pastel drawing from memory created in 1996
My home II has been exhibited at Pasaasj, Schunk, Heerlen 2026
Self portrait
Acrylic on paper 1992 21 x 30 cm
(my first drawing ever)
At kindergarten
photography 1967
The opposite gender of a man was never a woman
Composed objects 2016
Jimmy
Self -portrait in 2004
pastel and mixed media 2004
Safe
photography 2025
Mama and papa
43 x 56 cm original
Pastel on paper 2023
Jimmy and his mother Mark
Microscopic photography 2023
original photograph 1989
Helper Haven Groningen- Toddler group and three boys 1965
pastel drawing Jim A. 1998
The doors of the baby ward in Helper Haven
pastel 1996
Tim and Alex with their own baby "baby-Sven"
Photography 2025
The Saint of the children's home
with Pietertje
Pastel on paper 1997
Toddler group
Microscopic photography 2022
Original Photography 1994
In foster care
Mixed digital media with photography 1968, Jim Altanioxi 2014
Window in Helper Haven - toddler sleeping ward
pastel on paper drawing 1995
I am 11.433 pieces of Lego
mixed photography 2022
Tim, and Alex in the garden
with Snuitjes
Photography 2022
A suicidal boy
Original photography 1969
Crucified at seven
Oil pastel/ ink 20 x 30 cm 2025
Boy-man
[age- dysphoria]
Identity mix of selfie (52 years old) and pastel drawing of a 10 year old boy 2022
World map at ca 3.7 years old
drawn from memory after 29 years
(From: Groningen Haydnlaan 6, Helper Haven,
=the red buildings)
pastel on paper 60 x 50 cm 1994
Identity restoration studio
2021-2023
Photography 2022
Institutional Blueprint (Helper Haven, Groningen 1965)
Mixed photography and pastel 1965/ 2024
Plural identity, installation
BFF#13 Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 2022
You - (Helper Haven, Groningen.1965)
pastel on paper 30 x 40 cm 1996
Actually I'm a group of toddlers and two boys
Photography mix 2022
Stop 50 percent of all invisible violence
Adapted photography from poster UN, 2024
Frozen time
Mixed media photography (composition with oil painting/pencil drawing) 2016
Destroyed time 2020
pastel/ acrylic paint on paper 30 x 40 cm
World map at ca 2.7 years old
drawn from memory after 30 years
(Alexandrinalaan Apeldoorn, red = home)
Pastel on paper 50 x 60 cm 1994
Turn yourself into a boy -child
Photography 2024
Prisoner of the Past
Pastel 2022
Hidden selves
Processed photography 2022
One week before the last four months in foster care
(see Jasper Heijting, "Gepleegd" 2020)
Photography 1979
Daily trigger
Mixed media and processed image 2023
Mother and child
Acrylic on paper 21 x 30 cm 1993
(second drawing)
State -Imposed -Caterpillar -Sexuality
Collage 2023 50 x 65 cm
Brian brings the epilator
Photography 2023
Thank you for playing with me, Mowgli
Photography 2023
Gender dysphoria XXL: A female for the boy- child
30 x 40 cm pastel 2022
Hidden desire
Composition of pastel and original Roman mosaic (ca 200 AD) 2024
Dissociative Life Movie
Composed images (2020 print)
Baby
Watercolor 1995 (destroyed in 2002)
Creativity as therapy
Photography 2023
Building blocks of equal love are always red
mixed media 50 x 60 cm 2023
The impossible 'boy named Hue'
sketching 2021
Thank you for all you did for me
The death and lost of our twin co- identity (Jimmy / H.S. Sterry *Spring 1994 - ^October 2025)
processed photograph on print 2025
LOVE OVER FEAR
In the Realm of Boys
Mixed media on paper 30 x 40 cm 2025
I am two boys but never know which one is me
30 x 40 cm ink, oil pastels and pastel 2025
Where the state chose hatred, we choose:
Love over fear
pastel 2024 50 x 65 cm