100. is an exhibition. For the images of 100., one hundred record covers featuring women on the cover were randomly selected, and the rest was sanded away. The grit of the sandpaper ranged from 60 to 320. One hundred records were sampled for the music of 100. Two compositions emerged from these samples. For 100., this music was pressed onto one hundred new records, each with its own handmade cover. Every day a new record cover appears online.
The title of 100. refers to Max Ernst’s book La femme 100 têtes, the first novel created using collage techniques. Pronounced aloud, the title is as “The Hundred-Headed Woman” or “The Headless Woman.” Just as the future is not fixed, the past is not fixed. By placing existing material in a different light, history changes. Each cover, each record, is an ode to the past; all one hundred together form a monument to the future.
100. is a collaboration between Jan Nieuwenhuis and Floris van Bergeijk.