During Free Thinking (Vrij Denken), two contemporary artworks can be seen in the museum's monumental hall. The imaginative power of the word is central to the work of artists Annabelle Binnerts and Lennart Lahuis. They developed new work especially for Vrij Denken. Binnerts responds to the historical manuscripts in the exhibition with the enormous wall painting ‘Recto Verso’ in the museum's monumental hall. Lahuis shows a 'language sculpture' as a weathervane with a banner of sayings that is connected to the wind gauge at Schiphol, and that blows with the wind.
Our audience knows the Luther Museum for the connection between heritage, current affairs and art. In this case we are giving an art commission to artist and writer Annabelle Binnerts (1995). Words are central to her work, which she realises on walls, textiles and in books. Binnerts sees words as shape-shifters, which lead a double life, evoking ideas, objects or experiences that are elsewhere. In this way her work connects directly to the central question of the exhibition: how do words shape our view of the world?