Thomas Kuijpers' work always starts with a current event (or events), on the basis of which he investigates how the stories told about these events influence our daily lives. What effect do these daily reports have on our brains, when it comes to terrorism, refugees, Europe, extremism, etc.? To investigate this, Thomas collects a wide range of documents of all kinds: newspapers, fragments of conversations he hears on the street, videos on YouTube, posters on the wall of the bus stop and comments on Twitter. As soon as they touch on the topic of the investigation, they are added to the collection. From this collection, new connections emerge, as well as insights into how stories about specific topics are shaped; and this is how the work is born, in which the source material is often still visible. Hoarder Order" is an index of 20 years of collecting and (re)organizing this collection.
