In the Red Bedroom of Museum Van Loon, PRESENT is on view, a textile installation by Malaysian artist Marcos Kueh (1995). The four woven tapestries enter into a special connection with the historic interior.
PRESENT grew out of Kueh's personal relationship with his father. While he was reflecting on the inevitable death of his parents, he explored the absence of a present father figure and his desire to love his father, even when they do not understand each other. Behind the textile, he endlessly repeats the words 'I love you'. Words that are difficult to say as long as his father is still alive, but that in the work take the form of a last love letter.