#12 Stigma by Design
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Random artworks and photographs relating to a life in the youth care system and foster care are placed together.
Including 13 additional photographs that ground the artwork in reality. The Dutch government and society wanted those that left the youth care system in a complete social death. They wanted us to yo be formed by their hatred, suppression, isolation and by taking everything from us. THEY FAILED.
In "Stigma by design" photographs and artwork are placed together, as a visual story about an unseen reality but finally we came to the ultimate right choice: love over fear.
© Jimmy Groen
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Deported from home:
Blueprint in the baby ward
(Photography from print copy received from the residential childten's home Helper Haven, Groningen 1964-1965) Jimmy left in a baby ward visiting the babies)
Original text "The child will always have to settle for a substitute"
My home III (1965)
pastel drawing from memory created in 1996
My home II has been exhibited at Pasaasj, Schunk, Heerlen 2026
From a series of three
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 Eight
Leader of an alternative life
Self -portrait in 2004
pastel and mixed media 2004
Safe together
photography 2025
Mama and papa
43 x 56 cm original
Pastel on paper 2023
My mother and me
Microscopic photography 2023
original photograph 1989
Helper Haven Groningen- Toddler group and three leading 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
Living with peers
Microscopic photography 2022
Original Photography 1994
Foster care turbulence
Mixed digital media with photography 1968, Jim Altanioxi 2014
Window in Helper Haven: The toddler sleeping ward
pastel on paper drawing 1995
I am 11.433 pieces of Lego
mixed photography 2022
Tim, and Alex in the garden
Protected by Snuitjes
Photography 2022
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, 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)
Original wasco on paper 30 x 40 cm 1996
Wasco is the oil pastel for the children in the Helper Haven.
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 dehumanization in foster care
(17 years old)
(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)
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 (2016 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 us
The death and lost of our special twin identities Jimmy / H.S. Sterry * Spring 1994 - ^ October 2025
processed photograph 2025
Reversed Boy Pastel on paper 50 x 65 cm 2023
From Identity restoration studio 2021- 2024
VICTORY
Together 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
When the state chose hatred, we choose:
Love over fear
pastel 2024 50 x 65 cm
(Where the streets have no name. 2015 U2)